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Norwegian Translation


Norwegian Translation


Target Language Translation Services provides on-demand and high-quality Norwegian translation services at affordable rates.

We specialize in certified and standard translation between Norwegian and English using only professional Norwegian linguists with years of full-time experience translating.

If you need your documents translated from Norwegian into English, or another language. Not to worry, we have you covered! We have the capabilities to translate your documents into over 100 languages.


Norwegian-speaking areas


Areas where Norwegian is spoken, including North Dakota (where 0.4% of the population speaks Norwegian), western Wisconsin (<0.1% of the population), and Minnesota (0.1% of the population).


About Norwegian

Norwegian is a North Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in mainly in Norway. There are also some speakers of Norwegian in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Spain, Canada and the USA.

Early Norwegian literature, mainly poetry and historical prose, was written in West Norse and flourished between the 9th and the 14th centuries. After that Norway came under Swedish and then Danish rule. Norwegian continued to be spoken but Danish was used for officials purposes, as a literary language and in higher education.

After Norway separated from Denmark in 1814, Danish continued to be used in schools until the 1830s, when a movement to create a new national language emerged. The reasoning behind the movement was that written Danish differed to such an extent from spoken Norwegian that it was difficult to learn, and because they believed that every country should have its own language.

There was considerable debate about how to go about creating a national language and two languages emerged - Landsmål (national language), based on colloquial Norwegian and regional dialects, particularly the dialects of western Norway, and Riksmål (national language), which was primarily a written language and very similar to Danish.

Landsmål was renamed Nynorsk (New Norwegian) in 1929 and Riksmål is now officially known as Bokmål (book language). A few people over 60 still use Riksmål, which is considered a conservative form of Bokmål and differs only slightly from it.

Today schools in Norway have to teach both variations of the language. Students have to learn both of them, only they can choose which one they would like to learn as a major language. Civil servants are expected to be able to use both forms.

For a while there was a movement to create a single standard language to be called Samnorsk (Union Norwegian). Politicians liked the idea of unifying the Norwegian language, while everybody else thought it a bad idea and a bit of a waste of time. The Samnorsk project was officially abandoned on 1st January 2002.


Norwegian alphabet (norsk alfabet)

Norwegian alphabet (norsk alfabet)


Norwegian pronunciation

There is much regional variation in how Norwegian is pronounced. The pronunciation shown here is is Urban East Norwegian or Standard East Norwegian (standard østnorsk), the unofficial standard for the pronunciation of Norwegian as spoken in and around Olso. It is the version of Norwegian often used for news broadcasts on radio and TV, and taught to foreign students.


Norwegian pronunciation

Notes

• Vowels can be long or short.

• Short e = [æ] before r

• e = [ə] in unaccented syllables

• Long o = [o] before g and v

• Short o = [u] before rt, nd, and sometimes st

• æ = [ɛː] in unaccented syllables

• g = [j] before i and y, [g] elsewhere

• k = [ç] before i and y, [k] elsewhere

• sk = [ʃ] before i and y

• In western dialects, kj and tj = [ʧ]

• In southern dialects, sj = [sj] and skj = [skj]

• The retroflex sounds only appear in eastern and northern dialects, in other dialects, rd = [ʀd], rl = [ʀl] and rn = [ʀn]

• In eastern dialects, rd and l = [ɽ] at the end of words and between vowels

• q, x, z and w only appear in loanwords and names

• x = [s] in the beginning of words and [ks] elsewhere


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