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Norwegian is a
Germanic language spoken in
Norway. Norwegian is closely related to and generally mutually intelligible with
Swedish and
Danish. Together with these two languages as well as
Faroese and Icelandic, Norwegian belongs to the
North Germanic languages . Due to isolation, Faroese and Icelandic are no longer mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form, because mainland Scandinavian has diverged from them.
As established by law and governmental policy, there are two official forms of written Norwegian –
Bokmål and
Nynorsk . The Norwegian Language Council recommends the terms "Norwegian Bokmål" and "Norwegian Nynorsk" in English, but these are seldom used.
There is no officially sanctioned spoken standard for Norwegian, but there is a de facto spoken standard for Bokmål known as
Standard Østnorsk , spoken mainly by the urban upper and middle class in East Norway.
Standard Østnorsk is the form generally taught to foreign students.
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Danish was the standard written language of Norway. As a result, the development of modern written Norwegian has been subject to strong controversy related to
nationalism, rural versus urban discourse, and Norway's literary history. Historically, Bokmål is a Norwegianized variety of Danish, while Nynorsk is a language form based on Norwegian dialects and puristic opposition to Danish. The now abandoned official policy to merge Bokmål and Nynorsk into one common language called
Samnorsk through a series of spelling reforms has created a wide spectrum of varieties of both Bokmål and Nynorsk. The unofficial form known as
Riksmål is considered more conservative than Bokmål, and the unofficial
Høgnorsk more conservative than Nynorsk.
Norwegians are educated in both Bokmål and Nynorsk, but around 86-90% use Bokmål as their daily written language, and 10%-12% use Nynorsk, although most spoken dialects resemble Nynorsk more closely than Bokmål. Broadly speaking, Bokmål and Riksmål are more commonly seen in urban and suburban areas; Nynorsk in rural areas, particularly in Western Norway. The
Norwegian broadcasting corporation broadcasts in both Bokmål and Nynorsk, and all governmental agencies are required to support both written languages. Bokmål is used in 92% of all written publications, Nynorsk in 8% . According to the Norwegian Language Council,
"It may be reasonably realistic to assume that about 10-12% use Nynorsk, i.e. somewhat less than half a million people." In spite of concern that Norwegian dialects would eventually give way to a common, spoken, Norwegian language close to Bokmål, dialects find significant support in local environments, popular opinion, and public policy.
History
The languages now spoken in Scandinavia developed from the
Old Norse language, which did not differ greatly between what are now Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish areas. In fact,
Viking traders spread the language across
Europe and into
Russia, making Old Norse one of the most widespread languages for a time. According to tradition, King
Harald Fairhair united Norway in 872. Around this time, a
runic alphabet was used. According to writings found on stone tablets from this period of history, the language showed remarkably little deviation between different regions. Runes had been in limited use since at least the
3rd century. Around 1030,
Christianity came to Norway, bringing with it the
Latin alphabet. Norwegian manuscripts in the new alphabet began to appear about a century later. The Norwegian language began to deviate from its neighbors around this time as well.
Viking explorers had begun to settle
Iceland in the
9th century, carrying with them the Old Norse language. Over time, Old Norse developed into "Western" and "Eastern" variants. Western Norse covered Norway , while Eastern Norse developed in
Denmark and south-central
Sweden. The languages of Iceland and Norway remained very similar until about the year 1300, when they became what are now known as
Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian.
In the period traditionally dated to 1350-1525, Norwegian went through a Middle Norwegian transition toward Modern Norwegian. The major changes were simplification of the morphology, a more fixed syntax, and a considerable adoption of Middle Low German vocabulary. Similar development happened in Swedish and Danish, keeping the dialect continuum in continental Scandinavia intact. This did however not happen in
Faroese and Icelandic so these languages lost mutual intelligibility with continental Scandinavia.
In 1397, the
Kalmar Union unified Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and from 1536 Norway was subordinated under the Kingdom of
Denmark-Norway. Danish became the commonly written language among Norway's literate class. Spoken Danish was gradually adopted by the urban elite, first at formal occasions, and gradually a more relaxed variety was adopted in everyday speech. The everyday speech went through a koineization process, involving grammatical simplification and Norwegianized pronunciation. When the union ended in 1814 the Dano-Norwegian koine had become the mother tongue of a substantial part of the Norwegian elite, but the more Danish-sounding solemn variety was still used on formal occasions.
Norway was forced to enter a new personal union shortly after the liberation from Denmark, this time with Sweden. However, Norwegians began to push for true independence by embracing
democracy and attempting to enforce the constitutional declaration of being a sovereign state. Part of this nationalist movement was directed to the development of an independent Norwegian language. Three major paths were available: do nothing , Norwegianize the Danish language, or build a new national language based on Modern Norwegian dialects. All three approaches were attempted.
From Danish to Norwegian
From the 1840s, some writers experimented with a Norwegianized Danish by incorporating words that were descriptive of Norwegian scenery and folk life, and adopting a more Norwegian syntax. Knud Knudsen proposed to change spelling and inflection in accordance with the Dano-Norwegian koine, known as "cultivated everyday speech". A small adjustment in this direction was implemented in the first official reform of Danish language in Norway in 1862 and more extensively after his death in two official reforms in 1907 and 1917.
Meanwhile, a nationalistic movement strove for the development of a new written Norwegian.
Ivar Aasen, a self-taught linguist, began his work to create a new Norwegian language at the age of 22. He traveled around the country, comparing the dialects in different regions, and examined the development of Icelandic, which had largely escaped the influences Norwegian had come under. He called his work, which was published in several books from 1848 to 1873, Landsmål, meaning national language. The name "Landsmål" is sometimes interpreted as "rural language" or "country language", but this was clearly not Aasen's intended meaning.
The name of the Danish language in Norway was a topic of hot dispute through the 19th century. Its proponents claimed that it was a language common to Norway and Denmark, and no more Danish than Norwegian. The proponents of Landsmål thought that the Danish character of the language should not be concealed. In 1899,
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson proposed the neutral name Riksmål, meaning national language like Landsmål, and this was officially adopted along with the 1907 spelling reform. The name "Riksmål" is sometimes interpreted as "state language", but this meaning is secondary at best, refer
Danish rigsmål from where the name was borrowed.
After the personal union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905, both languages were developed further and reached what is now considered their classic forms after a reform in 1917. Riksmål was in 1929 officially renamed
Bokmål , and Landsmål to
Nynorsk . A proposition to substitute
Dano-Norwegian for
Bokmål lost in parliament by a single vote. The name
Nynorsk, the linguistic term for Modern Norwegian, was chosen for contrast to Danish and emphasis on the historical connection to Old Norwegian. Today this meaning is often lost, and it is commonly mistaken as a "new" Norwegian in contrast to the "real" Norwegian Bokmål.
Bokmål and Nynorsk were made closer by a reform in 1938. This was a result of a state policy to merge Nynorsk and Bokmål into one language, called "Samnorsk" . A 1946 poll showed that this policy was supported by 79% of Norwegians at the time. However, opponents of the official policy still managed to create a massive protest movement against Samnorsk in the 50's, fighting in particular the use of "radical" forms in Bokmål text books in schools. In the reform in 1959, the 1938 reform was partially reversed in Bokmål, but Nynorsk was changed further towards Bokmål. Since then Bokmål has reverted even further toward traditional Riksmål, while Nynorsk still adheres to the 1959 standard. Therefore a small minority of Nynorsk enthusiasts uses a more conservative standard called
Høgnorsk. The Samnorsk policy had little influence after 1960, and was officially abandoned in 2002.
Sound system
The sound system of Norwegian is similar to Swedish. There is considerable variation among the dialects, but the variant generally taught to foreign students is
Standard Østnorsk.
Consonants
Most of the retroflex consonants are mutations of or +any other alveolar/dental consonant; rn > , rt > , rl > , rs > , etc. across word boundaries , in loanwords and in a group of primarily literary words may be pronounced ,
e.g.,
verden , but it may also be pronounced in some dialects. The most exotic of the retroflex consonants is the retroflex flap which is only found in a few languages worldwide. Most of the dialects in eastern and central Norway use the retroflex consonants. Most western and northern dialects do not have these retroflex sounds.
It should be noted that traditionally the retroflex flap has not been used in
Standard Østnorsk, and still many consider it vulgar and don't use it, but in several words it must now be considered standard.outhern and Western Norwegian more guttural realizations of the -phoneme are very common. Depending on phonetic context voiceless or voiced uvular fricatives are used.
The unvoiced stops are regularly aspirated.
Vowels
caption | Vowel phonemes of Standard Østnorsk
| Orthography | IPA | Description |
|---|
| a | | Open back unrounded |
| ai | | |
| au | | |
| e | | open mid front unrounded |
| e | | close-mid front unrounded |
| e | | schwa |
| ei | | |
| i | | close front unrounded |
| i | | close front unrounded |
| o | | close back rounded |
| oi | | |
| u | | close central rounded |
| y | | close front rounded |
| y | | close front rounded |
| æ | | near open front unrounded |
| ø | | close-mid front rounded |
| øy | | |
| å | | open-mid back rounded |
There are, of course, many variations in
vowel pronunciation in different dialects and idiolects of Norwegian, as in any language. The above vowel chart is meant to be fairly representative of
Standard Østnorsk.
It should be noted that many don't consider the e /schwa to be a distinct vowel phoneme - but just an allophone of the e in weak positions.
Accent
Norwegian is a pitch accent language with two distinct pitch patterns. They are used to differentiate two-syllable words with otherwise identical pronunciation. For example in many East Norwegian dialects, the word "bønder" is pronounced using tone 1, while "bønner" uses tone 2. Though the difference in spelling occasionally allow the words to be distinguished in written language, in most cases the minimal pairs are written alike, since written Norwegian has no explicit accent marks. In most eastern low-tone dialects, accent 1 uses a low flat pitch in the first syllable, while accent 2 uses a high, sharply falling pitch in the first syllable and a low pitch in the beginning of the second syllable. In both accents, these pitch movements are followed by a rise of intonational nature , the size of which signals emphasis/focus and which corresponds in function to the normal accent in pure intonation languages. That rise culminates in the final syllable of an accentual phrase, while the utterance-final fall that is so common in most languages is either very small or absent.
There are significant variations in pitch accent between dialects. Thus, in most of western and northern Norway accent 1 is falling, while accent 2 is rising in the first syllable and falling in the second syllable or somewhere around the syllable boundary. The pitch accents give the Norwegian language a "singing" quality which makes it fairly easy to distinguish from other languages.
Interestingly, accent 1 generally occurs in words that were monosyllabic in
Old Norse, and accent 2 in words that were polysyllabic.
Tonal accents and morphology
In many dialects, the accents take on a central role in marking grammatical categories. Thus, the ending
-en implies determinate form of a masculine monosyllabic noun , whereas
-en denotes either determinate form of a masculine bisyllabic noun or an adjectivised noun/verb . Similarly, the ending
-a denotes feminine singular determinate monosyllabic nouns or neutrum plural determinate nouns , whereas the ending
-a denotes preteritum of weak verbs , feminine singular determinate bisyllabic nouns .
Monosyllabic tonal accents
In some dialects of Norwegian, mainly those from
Nordmøre and
Trøndelag to
Lofoten, there may also be tonal opposition in monosyllables, as in
vs. . In a few dialects, mainly in and near
Nordmøre, the monosyllabic tonal opposition is also represented in final syllables with secondary stress, as well as double tone designated to single syllables of primary stress in polysyllabic words. In practice, this means that one gets minimal pairs like:
vs. ;
vs. ;
vs. . Amongst the various views on how to interpret this situation, the most promising one may be that the words displaying these complex tones have an extra mora. This mora may have little or no effect on duration and dynamic stress, but is represented as a tonal dip.
Other dialects with tonal opposition in monosyllabic words have done away with vowel length opposition. Thus, the words
vs. have merged into in the dialect of
Oppdal.
Loss of tonal accents
Some forms of Norwegian have lost the tonal accent opposition. This includes mainly parts of the area around
Bergen; the
Brønnøysund area; to some extent, the dialect of
Bodø; and, also to various degrees, many dialects between
Tromsø and the
Russian border. Faroese and Icelandic, which have their main historical origin in
Old Norse, also show no tonal opposition. It is, however, not clear whether these languages lost the tonal accent or whether the tonal accent was not yet there when these languages started their separate development.
Pulmonic ingressive
The word
ja "yes" is often pronounced with inhaled breath in Norwegian - and this can be rather confusing for foreigners.
Written language
The alphabet
The Norwegian alphabet is as follows:
A B C
D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U
V W
X Y Z Æ Ø Åa b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z æ ø å
The letters
c,
q,
w,
x and
z are only used in loanwords. Some also spell their otherwise Norwegian family names using these letters.
Some letters may be modified by diacritics:
é,
è,
ê,
ó,
ò, and
ô. In Nynorsk,
ì and
ù and
? are occasionally seen as well. The diacritics are not compulsory, but may in a few cases distinguish between different meanings of the word, e.g.: for , fór , fòr and fôr . Loanwords may be spelled with other diacritics, most notably
á and
à.
Bokmål and Nynorsk
Like some other European countries, Norway has an official "advisory board" – Språkrådet – that determines, after approval from the Ministry of Culture, official spelling, grammar, and vocabulary for the Norwegian language. The board's work has been subject to considerable controversy through the years, and much work lies ahead.
Both Nynorsk and Bokmål have a great variety of optional forms, particularly Bokmål. 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. Nynorsk has forms that are close to the original Landsmål and forms that are close to Bokmål.
Riksmål
Opponents of the spelling reforms aimed at bringing Bokmål closer to Nynorsk have retained the name Riksmål and employ spelling and grammar that predate the Samnorsk movement. Riksmål and conservative versions of Bokmål have been the
de facto standard written language of Norway for most of the
20th century, being used by large newspapers, encyclopedias, and a significant proportion of the population of the capital Oslo, surrounding areas, and other urban areas, as well as much of the literary tradition. Since the reforms of 1981 and 2003 , the official Bokmål can be adapted to be almost identical with modern Riksmål. The differences between written Riksmål and Bokmål are today comparable to Commonwealth English vs
American English.
Riksmål is regulated by the Norwegian Academy, which determines acceptable spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.
Høgnorsk
There is also an unofficial form of Nynorsk, called
Høgnorsk, discarding the post-1917 reforms, and thus close to Ivar Aasen's original Landsmål. It is supported by Ivar Aasen-sambandet, but has found no widespread use.
Current usage
About 85.3% of the pupils in the primary and lower secondary schools in Norway receive education in Bokmål, while about 14.5% receive education in Nynorsk. From the eighth grade onwards pupils are required to learn both. Out of the 433 municipalities in Norway, 161 have declared that they wish to communicate with the central authorities in Bokmål, 116 in Nynorsk, while 156 are neutral. Of 4,549 state publications in 2000 8% were in Nynorsk, and 92% in Bokmål. The large national newspapers are published in Bokmål. Some major regional newspapers , many political journals, and many local newspapers use both Bokmål and Nynorsk.
Dialects
- Main article: Norwegian dialects
There is general agreement that a wide range of differences makes it difficult to estimate the number of different Norwegian dialects. Variations in grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and pronunciation cut across geographical boundaries and can create a distinct dialect at the level of farm clusters. Dialects are in some cases so dissimilar as to be unintelligible to unfamiliar listeners. Many linguists note a trend toward regionalization of dialects that diminishes the differences at such local levels; but there is renewed interest in preserving distinct dialects.
Examples
Below are a few sentences giving an indication of the differences between Bokmål and Nynorsk, compared to the conservative form Riksmål, Danish, as well as Old Norse, Swedish and Icelandic, the living language closest to Old Norse:
- B=Bokmål
- R=Riksmål
- D=Danish
- N=Nynorsk
- H=Høgnorsk
- O=Old norse
- I=Icelandic
- S=Swedish
- E=English
B/R/D: Jeg kommer fra Norge
N/H: Eg kjem frå Noreg.
O: Ek kem frá Noregi.
I: Ég kem frá Noregi.
S: Jag kommer från Norge.
E: I come from Norway.
B/R: Hva heter han?
D: Hvad hedder han?
N/H: Kva heiter han?
O: Hvat heitir hann?
I: Hvað heitir hann?
S: Vad heter han?
E: What is his name?
B/R/D: Dette er en hest.
N/H: Dette er ein hest.
O: Þetta er hross/Þetta er hestr.
I: Þetta er hross/hestur.
S: Detta är en häst.
E: This is a horse.
B: Regnbuen har mange farger.
R/D: Regnbuen har mange farver.
N: Regnbogen har mange fargar.
H: Regnbogen hev mange fargar. .
O: Regnboginn er marglitr.
I: Regnboginn er marglitur.
S: Regnbågen har många färger.
E: The rainbow has many colours.
Morphology
Nouns
Norwegian nouns are inflected or declined in definiteness and number . In some dialects, definite nouns are furthermore declined in case .
As in most Indoeuropean languages , nouns are classified by gender, which has consequences for the declension of agreeing adjectives and determiners. Norwegian dialects have three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter, except the
Bergen dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter. Bokmål and
Standard Østnorsk traditionally have two genders like Danish , but so called radical varieties have three genders.
Noun forms
båt in Bokmål
| Singular | Plural |
|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
|---|
| båt | båten | båter | båtene |
The declension of regular nouns depends on gender. Some dialects and variants of Nynorsk furthermore have different declension of weak and strong feminines and neuters.
Bokmål
| m. | gutt
| gutten
| gutter
| guttene
|
|---|
| f. | dør
| døren/døra
| dører
| dørene
|
|---|
| n. | hus
| huset
| hus
| husene/husa
|
|---|
Nynorsk
| m. | gut
| guten
| gutar
| gutane
|
|---|
| f. | sol
| sola/soli
| soler
| solene
|
|---|
kyrkje/kyrkja
| kyrkja
| kyrkjer/kyrkjor
| kyrkjene/kyrkjone
|
| n. | hus
| huset
| hus
| husa/husi
|
|---|
hjarta/hjarte
| hjarta/hjartet
| hjarto/hjarte/hjarti
| hjarto/hjarta/hjarti
|
Adjectives
Norwegian adjectives have two inflectional paradigms. The weak inflection is applicable when the argument is definite, the strong inflection is used when the argument is indefinite. In both paradigms the adjective is declined in comparison . Strong, positive adjectives are furthermore declined in gender and number in agreement with their argument.
Weak adjecive forms
grønn in Bokmål
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
|---|
| grønne | grønnere | grønneste |
Strong adjective forms
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
|---|
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural |
|---|
| grønn | grønn | grønt | grønne | grønnere | grønnest |
Verbs
Norwegian finite verbs are inflected or conjugated in mood: indicative/imperative/optative. The optative mood is constrained to a handful of verbs. The indicative verbs are conjugated in tense, present/past. In Bokmål and
Standard Østnorsk, the present tense also has a passive form. In some dialects, indicative verbs are also conjugated in number. Conjugation in gender is lost in Norwegian.
There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles perfective/past participle and imperfective/present participle.
The participles are verbal adjectives. The imperfective participle has no further declension, but the perfective participle is declined in gender and number like strong, positive adjectives. The definite form of the participle is identical to the plural form.
As with other Germanic languages, Norwegian verbs can be either weak or strong.
Verb forms in Nynorsk
leva
| Finite | Non-finite |
|---|
| Indicative | Optative | Imperative | Verbal nouns | Verbal adjectives |
|---|
| Present | Past | Infinitive | Imperfective | Perfective |
|---|
| Active | Passive | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural/Def |
|---|
| lever | levde | leve | lev | leva | levast | levande | levd | levd | levt | levde |
Verb forms in Bokmål
leve
| Finite | Non-finite |
|---|
| Indicative | Optative | Imperative | Verbal nouns | Verbal adjectives |
|---|
| Present | Past | Infinitive | Imperfective | Perfective |
|---|
| Active | Passive | Active | Passive | Singular | Plural/Def |
|---|
| lever | leves | levde | leve | lev | leve | leves | levende | levd | levde |
Pronouns
Norwegian personal pronouns are declined in case, nominative/accusative. Some of the dialects that have preserved the dative in nouns, also has dative case in stead of accusative case in personal pronouns, while others have accusative in pronouns and dative in nouns, effectively giving these dialects three distinct cases.
In the most comprehensive Norwegian grammar, Norsk referansegrammatikk, the categorization of personal pronouns by person, gender, and number is not regarded as inflection. As with nouns, adjectives must agree with the gender and number of pronoun arguments.
Other pronouns have no inflectoin.
The so called possessive, demonstrative, and relative pronouns are no longer regarded to be pronouns.
Pronouns are a closed class.
Pronoun forms
du
| Nominative | Accusative |
|---|
| du | deg |
Determiners
The closed class of Norwegian determiners are declined in gender and number in agreement with their argument. Not all determiners are inflected.
Determiner forms
eigen in Nynorsk
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural |
|---|
| eigen | eiga | eige | eigne |
Particle classes
Norwegian has five closed classes without inflection, i.e. lexical categories with grammatical function and a finite number of members that may not be distinguished by morphological criteria. These are interjections, conjunctions, subjunctions, prepositions, and adverbs. The inclusion of adverbs here, requires that traditional adverbs that are inflected in comparison are classified as adjectives, as is sometimes done.
Compound words
In Norwegian compund words, the
head, i.e. the part determining the compound's class, is the last part. Only the first part has primary stress. For instance, the compund
tenketank has primary stress on the first syllable and is a noun .
Compound words are written together in Norwegian, which can cause words to become very long; for example
sannsynlighetsmaksimeringsestimator and
menneskerettighetsorganisasjoner . Another example is the title
høyesterettsjustitiarius . Note also the translation
En midtsommernattsdrøm .
If they are not written together, each part will naturally be read with primary stress, and the meaning of the compound is lost. This is sometimes forgotten, occasionally with humorous results. Instead of writing, for example,
lammekoteletter , people make the mistake of writing
lamme koteletter . The original message can even be reversed, as when
røykfritt becomes
røyk fritt .
Other examples include:
- Terrasse dør instead of Terrassedør
- Tunfisk biter instead of Tunfiskbiter
- Smult ringer instead of Smultringer
- Tyveri sikret instead of Tyverisikret
- Stekt kylling lever instead of Stekt kyllinglever
- Pult ost instead of Pultost
These misunderstandings occur because most nouns can be interpreted as verbs or other types of words.
Similar misunderstandings can be achieved in English too. The following are examples of phrases that both in Norwegian and English mean one thing as a compound word, and something different when regarded as separate words:
- stavekontroll or stave kontroll
- kokebok or koke bok
- ekte håndlagde vafler or Ekte hånd lagde vafler.
Vocabulary
By far the largest part of the modern vocabulary of Norwegian dates back to Old Norse. The largest source of loanwords is Middle Low German, which had a huge influence on Norwegian vocabulary from the late middle ages onwards partially even influencing grammatical structures, such as genitive constructions. At present, the main source of new loanwords is English e.g.
rapper,
e-mail,
catering,
juice,
bag . Some loanwords have their spelling changed to reflect Norwegian pronunciation rules, but in general Norwegianised spellings of these words tend to take a long time to sink in: e.g.
sjåfør and
revansj are now the common Norwegian spellings, but
juice is more often used than the Norwegianised form
jus,
catering more often than
keitering,
service more often than
sørvis, etc.
See also
- Differences between the Norwegian and Danish languages
- Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur
- Noregs Mållag
- Norsk Ordbok
- Riksmålsforbundet
- Russenorsk
- List of common phrases in various languages
- Numbers in various languages
References
- Rolf Theil Endresen, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Andreas Sveen, Innføring i lingvistikk , ISBN 82-00-45273-5
External links
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- – A historical review of the Parliament and Norwegian language
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- Vocabulary tool with Norwegian
- Skogfjorden Norwegian Language Village in MN
