Norwegian language

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Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, closely related to Danish and Swedish and featuring two official written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Norwegian 86
Norwegian Nynorsk 4
Norwegian Bokmål 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic language
North Germanic language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Danish language
Swedish language
developedFrom Norse
surface form: Old Norse

Old Norwegian
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
hasCaseSystem largely lost grammatical case
hasDefiniteArticleType postposed definite suffix
hasDialect Eastern Norwegian dialects
Northern Norway
surface form: Northern Norwegian dialects

Southern Norwegian dialects
Trøndersk dialects
Western Norwegian dialects
hasMutualIntelligibilityWith Danish language
Swedish language
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasOfficialWrittenStandard Bokmål
Bokmål
surface form: Nynorsk
hasPhonologicalFeature pitch accent
hasStandardForm Standard Østnorsk
hasTense past
present
hasVariant Høgnorsk
Riksmål
hasWordOrder V2 word order
hasWritingStandard Bokmål
Norwegian language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nynorsk
influencedBy Danish language
Low German
ISO639-1Code no
ISO639-2Code nor
ISO639-3MacrolanguageCode nor
officialLanguageOf Norway
primaryCountry Norway
regulatedBy Norwegian Language Council
spokenIn Norway
subfamily North Germanic languages
usedAsMediumOf education in Norway
government in Norway
media in Norway
usesGrammaticalGender feminine
masculine
neuter
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (116)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Scandinavian Canadians ancestralLanguage Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian Language Council appliesTo Norwegian language
Danish language closelyRelatedTo Norwegian language
Danish language closelyRelatedTo Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Swedish language
Swedish language closelyRelatedTo Norwegian language
Kven distinctFrom Norwegian language
Western Norway dominantWrittenStandard Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Nynorsk
Old Norwegian earlyFormOf Norwegian language
Edvard Munch ethnicGroup Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian Canadians ethnicOrigin Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian diaspora ethnicOrigin Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Marker hasLanguage Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Vingar hasLanguage Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Carlson hasLanguageOfOrigin Norwegian language
Aleksander hasLanguageOfUse Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Joachim hasLanguageOfUse Norwegian language
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Norwegian language
Richard hasLanguageOfUse Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Kven hasLoanwordsFrom Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian language hasWritingStandard Norwegian language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Nynorsk
Middle Low German influenced Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norse influenced Norwegian language
Kven language influencedBy Norwegian language
Wisconsin English influencedBy Norwegian language
Elfdalian isRelatedTo Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Akershus language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
this entity surface form: Norwegian
NORMARC language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norid language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian Americans language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian Canadians language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian Nobel Committee language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian diaspora language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegian royal family language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norwegians language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegians language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian Nynorsk
Southern Norway language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Vadsø language Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Norway Pavilion languageFeatured Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
NRK languageOfBroadcast Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
NOR languageOfCountryRepresented Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Faculty of Education languageOfInstruction Norwegian language
subject surface form: Faculty of Education, Østfold University College
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Faculty of Humanities languageOfInstruction Norwegian language
subject surface form: Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Prime Minister of Norway languageOfLabel Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian
Håkon languageOfName Norwegian language
this entity surface form: Norwegian