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Languages of Norway

The Linguasphere Register records 5 entries for Norway, spread across 2 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

5Register entries
2Sectors present
3Zones
1Language entries

4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN

Register entries recorded in Norway

CodeEntryLevelNote
41=URALICZoneCovers the "Uralic" grouping, including the narrower "Finno-Ugric" grouping (41-A & 41-B).
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52-AAA-cdnorsk-FInner"standardised urban norwegian", dansk-norsk, "formal dano-norwegian". transition to [52] Nynorsk (New Norwegian).
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
59=INDICZoneCovers the "Indic", "Indo-Aryan" or Hindi + Domari set of languages, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.