Norwegian
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
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Key Facts
- Country: Norway[3]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[4], modern language[5]
- Subclass of: North Germanic[6], West Scandinavian[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8]
- Commons category: Norwegian language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: no[10]
- Has part(s): Bokmål[11], Nynorsk[12], Riksmål[13], Høgnorsk[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Norwegian language[15]
- Language regulatory body: Norwegian Language Council[16], Norwegian Academy[17], Ivar Aasen-sambandet[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,200,000[19]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], The American Cyclopædia[23], New International Encyclopedia[24]
- Topic has template: Šablona:Norština[25]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/norwegian[26]
- Native label: norsk[27]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154059[28]
- Short name: норвежский[29], норвезька[30], norveçcə[31], норвегиаг[32]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[33]
- History of topic: history of the Norwegian language[34]
- Indigenous to: Norwegians[35]
- Studied by: Scandinavian studies[36]
- Has part(s) of the class: word[37]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NOR[38]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q118287374[39]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[40], accusative case[41], genitive case[42], dative case[43]
- Has tense: present tense[44], past tense[45], future tense[46]
Why It Matters
Norwegian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Norwegian is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]