Learn to count the Norwegian way!

Learn the Continents in Norwegian

THE NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE 

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in USA, especially in the central northern states. 

The Scandinavian languages, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish in addition to the insular languages Faroese and Icelandic constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form, because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them.

As established by law and governmental policy, there are two official forms of written Norwegian - Norwegian Bokmål (literally "book language") and Norwegian Nynorsk (literally "new Norwegian").  

There is no officially sanctioned standard of spoken Norwegian, and most Norwegians speak their own dialect in all circumstances.  

THE ALPHABET

The Norwegian alphabet has 29 letters. 

EXAMPLES 

Below are a few sentences giving an indication of the differences between Bokmål and Nynorsk, compared to the conservative (nearer to Danish) form Riksmål, Danish, as well as Old Norse, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic (the living language closest to Old Norse) and other modern Germanic languages: