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• Ordbøkene.no: Norwegian dictionaries (Bokmål & Nynorsk) meanings in Norwegian

• Lexin: Norwegian dictionary (Bokmål & Nynorsk) for foreigners

• Bokmål-nynorsk dictionary

• Nynorsk-English dictionary

• Heinzelnisse: Norwegian-German dictionary

• Apertium: Norwegian bokmål-nynorsk translation & nynorsk-bokmål

→ online translation: Norwegian-English & other languages & web page


• Lingua: Engelsk-norsk & norsk-engelsk ordbok (Norwegian-English dictionary) (2003) online

• Vega: Engelsk-norsk & norsk-engelsk ordbok (Norwegian-English dictionary) by Willy Kirkeby (2003) online

• Hippocrene: English-Norwegian & Norwegian-English dictionary, by Egill Daae Gabrielson (1990) online

• Berlitz: Norwegian phrase book & dictionary (1990) online

• Hugo: Norwegian phrase book (1991) online


• Loecsen: Norwegian-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Goethe-Verlag: Norwegian-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)

• LingoHut: Norwegian-English vocabulary by topics (+ audio)


• Store norske leksikon: Norwegian encyclopedia


• Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok: Norwegian etymological dictionary, by Alf Torp (1919)

• Norwegisch-dänisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (bokmål) by Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp (1910)

A-O & P-Ø


• Rimordbog: dictionary of rhymes


• Språkrådet: geographical names (Norsk språkråd, Norwegian Language Council)

• Navn på stater (names of the countries)

• Historiske navn (historical names)

• Linguistic patterns in the place-names of Norway and the Northern Isles, by Berit Sandnes, in Northern Lights, Northern Words (2010)


• Systematical vocabulary, English-Norwegian (Danish) by Tyra Bentsen (1907) by topics

• Dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian languages by John Brynildsen (1902)

A-L & N-Z

• Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog: dictionary of the Norwegian People's Language (has become nynorsk) by Ivar Aasen (1850)

• Norsk ordbog: Norwegian dictionary by Ivar Aasen (1873) + PDF


• Norsk-lappisk ordbog: Norwegian-Lapp dictionary by Nils Vibe Stockfleth (1852)

• Glossarium Norvagicum eller Forsøg paa en Samling af saadanne rare Norske Ord: Norwegian-Danish dictionary, by Erik Pontoppidan (1749) or scanned book


• Norwegisch-dänisches etymologisches Wörterbuch: etymological dictionary by Hjalmar Sejersted Falk & Alf Torp (1910)

A-O & P-Ø

• Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog: dictionary over the old Norwegian language, by Johan Fritzner (1867)


• L'emprunt lexical et les enjeux actuels de l'influence de l'anglais sur le norvégien by Đurđica Hruškar, in Nordiques (2012)

• On the consciousness of anglicisms in Norwegian youth language, by Anna Domanska, thesis (2009)

Norwegian language

→ Norwegian keyboard to type text with special characters of the Norwegian alphabet

• Språkrådet, Norwegian Language Council

• Korrekt språk : orthography & grammar

• Rettskriving og grammatikk : spelling rules & typopraphy

• Korrekturavdelingen: spelling rules & typopraphy (in Norwegian)

• Verbix: verb conjugation (bokmål) & Norwegian-English translation


• Early lexical and grammar development in Norwegian language acquisition, by Åge Kristian Henden (2013)

• Le féminin en bokmål: vers un état des lieux plus réaliste de la distribution du genre grammatical (The feminine gender in Bokmål) by Sarah Harchaoui, in Nordiques (2024)

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• Sons of Norway: Norwegian course, pronunciation

• LearnNow: Norwegian course, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (+ audio)

• St. Olaf College: Norwegian grammar (WaybackMachine)

• Norwegian course, Foreign Service Institute (1981) (+ audio)


• Colloquial Norwegian (2005)

• Norwegian self-taught with phonetic pronunciation, by Illit Gröndahl (1920)

• Beginners' book in Norse by Johan Andreas Holvik (1910)

• Norwegian grammar and reader with notes and vocabulary, by Julius Olson (1898)

• Practical and easy method of learning the Danish and Norwegian languages by H. Lund (1900)

• Danish and Dano-Norwegian grammar by Peter Groth (1894)

• Grammar of the Dano-Norwegian language by John Young Sargent (1892)

• Norsk grammatik: New Norwegian grammar by Ivar Aasen (1864)


• The phonology of the dialect of Aurland (north-east from Bergen) by George Tobias (1915)


• books about the Norwegian language: Google books | Internet archive | Academia | Wikipedia

The two languages of Norway

There are two Norwegian languages:

- Bokmål (literally: book language) influenced by the Danish: it is the language of the Norwegian literature.
- Nynorsk (literally: New Norwegian) closely related to Old Norwegian language.

• The two Norwegian official written standards, bokmål and nynorsk: linguistic and ideological implications of national bilingualism and biliteracy, by Tove Bull, in AFinLAn vuosikirja (2019)

• Nynorsk in Norway by Lars Vikør, in The Nordic languages: their status and interrelations (2001) (WaybackMachine)

• Lexicography and lexicological research concerning Nynorsk and Norwegian dialects, in Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter (2011)

• The Nynorsk language by Peter Hallaråker (2001)

• From Old Norse to Middle Norwegian by Stephen Walton

• The Norwegian language, a phantom in 16th century linguistics ? by Even Hovdaugen, in Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance (1982)

• Nynorsk et bokmål : aux origines du bilinguisme en Norvège, by Emmanuelle Vignaux, in Raisons politiques (2001)

• Analyse métahistoriographique du norvégien by Narcís Iglésias, in Études scandinaves (2011)

• Une conversion linguistique au sein de l'Église de Norvège : du catholicisme à la Réforme protestante, by Alexandre Chollet, in Langues et religions en Europe du Moyen Âge à nos jours (2021)

News - Nyheter

• Aftenposten - Stavanger Aftenblad - Dagens Næringsliv

• NRK (Norsk rikskringkasting): Norwegian radio & television

• news (Dagsrevyen)

• radio online

• Google news

Texts & Literature

• Nasjonalbiblioteket: National library of Norway, online books

• LyrikLine: poems in Norwegian, with translation (+ audio)

• Henrik Ibsen: books


• Categorizing Othernessin the Kings' Sagas by Sirpa Aalto, thesis (2010)

• Henrik Ibsen: biography by Edmund Gosse (1908)

• Norwegian life and literature, English accounts and views, especially in the 19th century, by Carl Burchardt (1920)

• Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon (1814–1880): Dictionary of the Norwegian writers, by Jens Braage Halvorsen & Halvdan Koht


• books about Norwegian literature: Google books | Internet archive | Runeberg


• Bibel.no: translation of the Bible into Norwegian, Bokmål & Nynorsk

→ Multilingual Bible translations: Norwegian & other languages

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Bokmål:

Alle mennesker er født frie og med samme menneskeverd og menneskerettigheter.
De er utstyrt med fornuft og samvittighet og bør handle mot hverandre i brorskapets ånd.

Nynorsk:

Alle menneske er fødde til fridom og med same menneskeverd og menneskerettar.
Dei har fått fornuft og samvit og skal leve med kvarandre som brør.


• Den internasjonale fråsegna om menneskerettane: translation into Norwegian (Nynorsk) (+ audio)

→ First article in different languages

→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: bilingual text, in Norwegian, English, Danish, Swedish…

→ Norway: maps, symbols, heritage & documents

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