Family / Group : Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian
Area : Norway (Denmark, Sweden, Finland)
Type : fusional; accusative marking
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : F, M, NEU
Sources of lexicon : homolexical
Language with sortal classifiers : No
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N
Specific traits : SVO
Numeration base :
Comments : more than 5,300,000 users in all countries. Specific traits: SVO; prepositions; noun head final; definite and indefinite articles; passives (active, middle, passive); comparatives. Norwegian has two written standards: Bokmål Norwegian (nob) and Nynorsk Norwegian (nno). Bokmål differs from Nynorsk in numerous details in the lexicon, morphosyntax and the use of diphthongs versus single vowels. Nynorsk, used by a minority of Norwegians, can be classified as West Scandinavian; Bokmål, the written standard of the majority of the population, tends towards East Scandinavian (source Ethnologue).
Informants : Hans-Olaf Enger