Five interesting facts about the Norwegian language:
- Norwegian shares similarities with Danish and Swedish, making them mutually intelligible due to their common history.
- Norwegian is a tonal language, which is rare in Indo-European languages and is more commonly a feature of Asian languages.
- There are two official written standards for Norwegian, ‘bokmål’ (book language) and ‘nynorsk’ (new Norwegian).
- English contains some loan words from Norwegian, such as ‘berserk’, ‘slalom’ and ‘lemming’.
- Between the 16th and 19th centuries in Norway, Danish was the standard written language used in Norway.
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