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The Danish and Norwegian alphabets is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish): The letters c , q , w , x and z are not used in the spelling of indigenous words.
Dano-Norwegian ( Danish and Norwegian: dansk-norsk) was a koiné / mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later years of the union between the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway (1536/1537–1814). It is from this koiné that the unofficial written standard Riksmål and the official written standard Bokmål ...
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The Danish and Norwegian alphabets, together called the Dano-Norwegian alphabet, is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish): The letters c, q, w, x and z are not used in the spelling of ...
THE ALPHABET. 8. The alphabet used in Danish and Dano-Norwegian literature has the same letters as the English alphabet and besides these the signs Æ (æ) and Ö (Ø, ø, ö). As for the sounds indicated by these letters see §§ 12, 13, 25, 26, 82, 91.
Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å . It is identical to the Norwegian alphabet . The orthography is characterized by a low degree of correspondence between writing and pronunciation. [1] : 680.
In its current form Dano-Norwegian is the predominant language of Norway’s population of more than 4.6 million, except in western Norway and among the Sami minority in the north. Dano-Norwegian is used in all national newspapers and in most of the literature. Both of these mutually intelligible languages are used in government and education.
HISTORY OF THE DANO-NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE. 1. The Danish and Dano-Norwegian language belongs to the Scandinavian group of the Teutonic languages. This group comprises, in modern times, besides the language already mentioned, the Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroish languages. 2. The earliest specimens of Scandinavian language are found in the ...
