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Language code: non

Technical information about ISO 639 language code non

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The table below provides technical details for the Old Norse language, designated by the non code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

non

Name

Old Norse

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Old West NorseOld East NorseOld Gutnish
Related languages
IcelandicFaroeseNorwegianDanishSwedish
Key facts
Earliest Old Norse texts were carved in the Younger Futhark runic alphabetIt is the language of the Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetryOld Norse had four grammatical cases and three genders, making its morphology highly inflectionalMany common English words such as "sky", "egg" and "knife" derive from Old NorseMost surviving Old Norse manuscripts were copied in Iceland between the 12th and 14th centuries
Sample phrase

Heill, hvé gengr þér?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Old Norse language, identified by the code non, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Historical' by its type.

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