nb
Technical information about ISO 639 language code nb
The table below provides technical details for the Norwegian Bokmål language, designated by the nb
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Norwegian Bokmål belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Germanic subgroup. It is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language officially used in Norway. It is written using the Latin script (Norwegian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 4.7 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Norwegian Bokmål speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
nb-NO
– Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
nb-SJ
– Norwegian Bokmål (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
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