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Bokmål or Nynorsk? : This page is about the Norwegian variant called Bokmål. If you were looking for the same article in Nynorsk, please see the corresponding Nynorsk page.

Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the Norwegian language, or as we call it, norsk!

An Introduction to the Language

History

Norwegian is a Northern Germanic language spoken as an official language in Norway. It is broken into two variants known as bokmål and nynorsk, of which this page talks about Bokmål. Bokmål is primarily a written language due to Norwegians nature of being very dialectal.

Bokmål developed from a western dialect of Old Norse. Norwegian is highly intelligible with Swedish and Danish and is often described as the most mutually intelligible continental Scandinavian language.

Family

Indo-European

• Germanic
  • North Germanic
    • West Scandinavian
      • Norwegian

Spoken in

There are about 5 million speakers in Scandinavia with the largest majority in Norway.