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  Norwegian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Norwegian is closely related to, and generally mutually intelligible with Swedish and Danish.
The Norwegian alphabet consists of 29 letters, the first 26 of which are the same as the Latin alphabet used in English.
Norwegians began to push for true independence by embracing democracy and attempting to enforce the constitutional declaration of being a sovereign state.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nynorsk   (2038 words)

  
 Danish and Norwegian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The initial proposal was to place it first, before A, B, C. Its place as the last letter of the alphabet, as in Norwegian, was decided in 1955.
The difference between the Dano-Norwegian alphabet and the Swedish alphabet, is that Swedish uses the variant Ä instead of Æ, and the variant Ö instead of Ø — as in German.
Additionally, in current Danish and Norwegian, W is recognized as a seperate letter from V. In Danish, the transition was in 1980, before that the W was merely considered to be a variation of the letter V and words using it were alphabetized accordingly (e.g.: Wales, Vallø, Washington, Wedellsborg, Vendsyssel).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_alphabet   (313 words)

  
 Norwegian language, alphabet and pronunciation
Norwegian is a Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in Norway, Canada, Ecuador, Sweden, the UAE and the USA.
Early Norwegian literature, mainly poetry and historical prose, was written in West Norse and flourished between the 9th and the 14th centuries.
Norwegian continued to be spoken but Danish was used for officials purposes, as a literary language and in higher education.
www.omniglot.com /writing/norwegian.htm   (381 words)

  
 From Old Norse to Middle Norwegian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Norwegian society, already in decline before 1350, was dealt a fatal blow by the Black Death, in which a third of the population perished, large areas of the country were abandoned and the vernacular literate learning of the priesthood was largely lost.
West Norwegian is spoken in all of west Norway west of the watershed and along the south coast to a point about 90 km NW of Kristiansand.
The Norwegian colony on the shore of the Kola peninsula in NW Russia was repatriated after 1917, although it is immortalized in the place-name Murmansk (cf.
www.hivolda.no /index.php?ID=11686   (2993 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Danish and Norwegian alphabet
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters —; basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
Similarly, "Å" was introduced in Danish in 1948, but its place as the last letter of the alphabet, as in Norwegian, was instituted in 1955.
In computing, several different coding standards have existed for this alphabet: A computer is a device or machine for processing information according to a program — a compiled list of instructions.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Danish-and-Norwegian-alphabet   (1163 words)

  
 Norwegian alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Norwegian in Five Minutes a Month Includes the Norwegian alphabet and 36 language lessons.
Alphabet Themes and Activities for Kids Includes general alphabet activities, specific activities for some letters, and alphabet coloring pages.
Alphabet Action An interactive Flash alphabet where kids can click on a letter to hear its name and see a picture.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Norwegian_alphabet.html   (305 words)

  
 Norwegian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Written Danish and Norwegian are particularly close, though the pronunciation of all three languages differs significantly.
In the 19th century, a nationalistic movement based in the western provinces strove for the development of a new written Norwegian, which was developed by Ivar Aasen.
However, because of the increasing influence the English language is having on Norwegian, this is often forgotten, sometimes with a humorous result.
usapedia.com /n/norwegian-language.html   (742 words)

  
 Norwegian Translation - Translate Norwegian Language Translator
Danish came to be the primary language of the Norwegian elite, although adoption was slower among the commoners.
Norwegians began to push for true independence by embracing democracy and attempting to act as a sovereign nation.
This was adopted by the Norwegian parliament as ''Riksm l, or "Official Language" in 1899.
www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/norwegian.shtml   (1442 words)

  
 History of Norwegian characters
The basic alphabet used in Norway is of course the same one that we use here in the U.S., with a few additions: The Latin alphabet.
The initial Latin alphabet contained 21 characters was modified by adding two letters: Y and Z, and later, during the Middle Ages, the I was added.
In Sweden, the character is third in the alphabet, but in Norwegian, the letter was added to the end of the alphabet.
www.fiskeklubben.org /charcters/history.html   (974 words)

  
 Norwegian language biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although Norwegians are educated in both bokmål and nynorsk, around 86-90% use bokmål or riksmål as their daily written language, and 10%-12% use nynorsk or høgnorsk as theirs.
Riksmål has been the de facto standard written language of Norway for most of the 20th century, and is the language used by the largest Norwegian newspapers and encyclopedias, a very large proportion of the population of the capital and its surrounding areas, and much of the literary tradition.
However, because of the increasing influence the English language is having on Norwegian, and inaquedate computer spell checkers, this is often forgotten, sometimes with humorous results.
nynorsk.biography.ms   (2051 words)

  
 Norwegian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As established by law and governmental policy, there are currently two official forms of written Norwegian — Bokmål (literally "book language") and Nynorsk (literally "new Norwegian").
Around this time, a simple runic alphabet was used.
Russenorsk, a pidgin language combining Russian and Norwegian.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Norwegian_language   (2038 words)

  
 Norwegian - Language Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This was adopted by the Norwegian parliament as Riksmål, or "Official Language" in 1899.
Riksmål, which is translated as "Standard Norwegian", has been the de facto standard language of Norway for most of the 20th century, and is the language used by the largest Norwegian newspapers and encyclopedias.
The Bokmål that uses the forms that are close to Riksmål is called moderate or conservative, depending on one's viewpoint, while the Bokmål that uses the forms that are close to Nynorsk is called radical.
www.geocities.com /language_directory/languages/norwegian.htm   (808 words)

  
 Norwegian Introduction - Wikibooks
Written Norwegian is, like Written English, not reflected in the oral language.
Although Norwegian can only be written in two ways, Bokmål and Nynorsk; how one speaks it is usually reflected in where you come from, by your dialect.
The Norwegian alphabet is almost the same as in English, except for three additional letters, æ/Æ, ø/Ø and å/Å.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Norwegian_Introduction   (423 words)

  
 Overview of the Norwegian Language to Help You Learn Norwegian
Nynorsk is a dialect that was formed in the mid-1800s from the rural dialects of Norwegian, in a conscious effort to separate the Norwegian language from Danish.
Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are linguistically very closely related and are generally mutually intelligible.
The movement for the recognition of a Norwegian language separate from Danish and Swedish led to the consequent formation of nynorsk.
www.transparent.com /languagepages/norwegian/overview.htm   (653 words)

  
 Articles - Norwegian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Native speakers of Norwegian are, for the most part, quite proficient in understanding Danish and Swedish, in spoken as well as written form.
Although Norwegians are educated in both Bokmål and Nynorsk, around 86-90% use Bokmål or Riksmål as their daily written language, and 10%-12% use Nynorsk, although many of the spoken dialects resemble Nynorsk more closely than Bokmål.
The variant generally taught to foreign students is Eastern Norwegian (Bokmål) as it is spoken in and around the capital Oslo.
lastring.com /articles/Norwegian_language?mySession=49ddb66ca12c3ae3...   (1951 words)

  
 Nordic Characters
In Norwegian the æ/Æ sound is long, usually the most stressed vowel in the word, and it is never combined with other vowels.
In the Swedish alphabet 'ä/Ä' is the 28th letter, in Norway and Denmark 'æ/Æ' is placed as number 27.
In Sweden 'ö/Ö' is the 29th and last letter in the alphabet, in Norway and Denmark 'ø/Ø' is number 28.
www.nndata.no /home/jborgos/alfabet.htm   (706 words)

  
 Phrasebase - Norwegian Language Facts And Information
Signed Norwegian is used by teachers; pupils use Norwegian Sign Language among themselves.
Alphabet The Norwegian alphabet consists of 29 letters, the first 26 or which are the same as the Latin alphabet used in English.
Grammar The number of grammatical genders in Norwegian is somewhat disputed, but the official view is that Norwegian nouns fall into three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=55   (928 words)

  
 Online Resources for the Study of Norwegian: Dictionaries, Grammars, and Cultural Resources
From the source: "it is hard for foreigners to comprehend why Norwegians, who 150 years ago did not have a written language of their own and managed quite well with Danish, have, over the past 100 years, developed for good measure two Norwegian tongues.
The Norwegian Language Council is the Norwegian government's advisory body in matters pertaining to the Norwegian language.
Den norske ordboksserien LEXIN er laget for at det skal bli enklere for minoritetsspråklige som bor i Norge å lære seg norsk.
employees.csbsju.edu /tnichol/norwegian.html   (1885 words)

  
 Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945, O
Please go to my page Norwegian Victims of Atlantis for a lot more details on this incident, including crew list, excerpts from the maritime hearings, and her subsequent history and fate, as well as information on all the other Norwegian ships captured by this raider.
Norwegian sources state that the crew from Ole Jacob (and M/T Teddy, captured by the same raider) were freed through diplomatic avenues (again, there's more details on the page mentioned above).
Here is some pre war history, while details on her WW II fate can be found on my page Norwegian Victims of Pinguin, which inlcudes a crew list at the time of capture in Jan.-1941, and 2 pictures, 1 of which shows her under German control.
www.warsailors.com /freefleet/norfleeto.html   (1843 words)

  
 Danish And Norwegian Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By the 7th century, an English alphabet had emerged from the Roman alphabet.
The letter "Å;" was introduced in Norwegian in 1917, replacing "Aa".
The difference between the Dano-Norwegian alphabet and the Swedish alphabet, is that Swedish uses the variant Ä instead of Æ, and the variant Ö instead of Ø as in German, and that the letter W is always a separate letter in Norwegian and Danish.
www.wikiverse.org /danish-and-norwegian-alphabet   (208 words)

  
 Norskklassen - Typing Norwegian characters on the Mac
The Norwegian alphabet has three letters not found in the English alphabet: æ, ø, and å.
When multiple keyboard layouts are selected, for example US and Norwegian, a new menu appears on the right-hand side of the menu bar which shows a flag icon of the current keyboard.
The Norwegian special characters are in both sets, but they are in different positions in the character sets.
frodo.bruderhof.com /norskklassen/macchar.htm   (794 words)

  
 Three Norw Letter
We think it would be useful to the delegates to know a little about three Norwegian letters you will meet in many Norwegian words.
These letters are not found in the English alphabet, and can therefore not be used internationally on Internet or on the packet radio net.
The first letter (no. 27 in the Norwegian alphabet) is the ae merged into one letter.
home.c2i.net /inerlie/iaru/three.htm   (210 words)

  
 Norwegian - N
Selection of Norwegian language resources including excerpts from books about the language known as Old Norse, an article describing language usage in Norway's civil service, samples of Norwegian, and bibliographic details of additional Norwegian resources.
Includes the Norwegian alphabet, meeting people, counting, days, months, seasons, greetings and weather.
Explains the background to the banning of the Norwegian National Language in 1938.
www.electronicsee.com /Resources/Norwegian.htm   (302 words)

  
 Learning Norwegian: Links for Norwegian Learners - Apronus.com
I've been learning Norwegian for over two years (see Norsk Experiment) and I want to recommend a number of links to those who are learning Norwegian.
This magazine should be interesting for people who are very advanced in Norwegian and who want to gain more information about the various forms of the Norwegian language.
The text is Loe's original, but the hardest words and phrases are translated on the side, so you pick up the colloquial meanings that are sometimes hard, and don't have to stop to use the dictionary.
www.apronus.com /norsk/norsk_links.htm   (652 words)

  
 Norwegian translation by Norwegian translator - Immigration documents
Norwegian scripts go back to the 3rd century A.D. Written language evolved in the 11th century.
Norwegian language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
We specialize in translating your documents (in Norwegian language) for the U.S. Immigration.
www.online-languagetranslators.com /norwegian.htm   (904 words)

  
 SAMPA for Norwegian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In cases where the dental consonants do not change into retroflexes, they are transcribed using the separator sign (ASCII 45), e.g.
Norwegian has two contrasting tonemes, but only in stressed syllables.
Tone 1 is indicated by the ordinary stress mark, Tone 2 by a doubled stress mark, e.g.
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/sampa/norweg.htm   (267 words)

  
 The ABC Game - Learning the alphabet in 123   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is designed to complement one of gyldendals readingbooks for primaryschools.
The game fokuses on the shapes of the letters in the alphabet and aims to make 6 year olds confident and familiar with the characters.
The illustrated letters are painted by Stefano Lemma and the sound is composed by Geir Bremer Øvrebø.
www.orgdot.com /abc   (103 words)

  
 Land of Links Languages: Norwegian
Includes the Norwegian alphabet and 36 language lessons.
Use this dictionary of approximately 10,000 terms to translate between Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
Norsk språkråd (The Norwegian Language Council) is the Norwegian government's advisory body in matters pertaining to the Norwegian language and language planning.
www.landoflinks.com /languages/norwegian.html   (246 words)

  
 norwegian alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
According to the Norwegian owner, this geared cargo ship was dry-docked in 2,000.
This Beautiful Old Lady is self discharging with an excavator powered by a Cat 225 mounted on deck for discharging of bulk cargoes etc.
Sir Arthur - J Netherlands, The 54.75 meter (179.63 feet) norwegian alphabet
www.maritimecentral.com /s/29836/norwegian_alphabet.htm   (267 words)

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