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Language code: no

Technical information about ISO 639 language code no

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The table below provides technical details for the Norwegian language, designated by the no code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

no

Name

Official

Norwegian

Native

Norsk

Family
Germanic
Scripts
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Eastern NorwegianWestern NorwegianTrønderskNorthern Norwegian
Related languages
DanishSwedishFaroeseIcelandic
Key facts
Norwegian has two codified written standards: Bokmål and NynorskIt shares high mutual intelligibility with Swedish and DanishNorwegian employs a two-tone pitch accent system that can change word meaningRoughly one-fifth of its modern vocabulary comes from historical Low German contactThe humorous technical term “minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur” is often cited as the longest Norwegian word.
Sample phrase

Hei, hvordan har du det?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-10, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 865, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Norwegian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It has two official written forms: Bokmål and Nynorsk. Norwegian is the official language of Norway and is written using the Latin script (Norwegian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 5.4 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Norway

5.3M

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

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