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Language code: nb

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nb

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The table below provides technical details for the Norwegian Bokmål language, designated by the nb code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

nb

Name

Official

Norwegian Bokmål

Native

Norsk bokmål

Family
Germanic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Conservative BokmålModerate BokmålRadical Bokmål
Related languages
Norwegian NynorskDanishSwedish
Key facts
Evolved from the Danish writing tradition used in Norway until the 19th centuryUses 29-letter Latin alphabet, adding Æ, Ø and ÅWritten Bokmål is highly mutually intelligible with Danish and SwedishNorms are regulated by the Language Council of NorwayStandard Østnorsk (Urban East Norwegian) is the spoken variety most closely aligned with Bokmål.
Sample phrase

Hei, hvordan har du det?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Norway

4.7M

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

1.4K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Norwegian Bokmål speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

nb-NO – Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)

nb-SJ – Norwegian Bokmål (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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