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315 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Norwegian nɔ��wi�dʒən
Language name Norn nɔ�n
Autonym (if known and different) Norsk; Bokmål and Nynorsk are two distinct Norwegian
languages, sometimes called by the older names Riksmål
and Landsmål respectively; Bokmål/Riksmål is sometimes
called Dano-Norwegian, because of its origins
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Indo-European Germanic
Spoken in Orkney and Shetland, c. 800–1800 ce
Language family Indo-European Germanic
Approximate number of speakers 0
Spoken in Norway
Writing system runes, Roman
Approximate number of speakers 4m
Phonetics/phonology
Writing system Roman�extra letters
Stress probably word-initial
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-initial
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Contains following rare retroflex
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels?
Marked vowel types front rounded
Said to have how many vowels? 10�length�5 diphthongs
Tone none
Marked vowel types front rounded
Rhythm no information
Tone tonal accent
Vowel harmony none
Rhythm no information
Morphology fusional stem-based
Vowel harmony none
Particular formation types suffix; apophony
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SVO AN prepositions
PossN
Syntax
Word order V2 AN prepositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena
Particular syntactic phenomena gender
Points of interest to the extent that Norn survives, it is in dialect
words of the Orkneys and Shetlands
Points of interest
Sources Barnes (1998), Jakobsen (1985)
Sources Campbell (1991), Haugen (1938), Katzner (1977),
Maddieson (1984), Ruhlen (1976)
Occitan see Provençal