Norwegian Language

This article deals with Norwegian Language as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway and Canador where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants.

These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language and Icelandic language, as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages). Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them.

There are two written forms of Norwegian: Bokmål (literally "book tongue") and Nynorsk (literally "new Norwegian").