there are two Norwegian languages? Why, and which one is the main one?
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There are two kinds of written norwegian, and sami is an official language in addittion to those two. Bokmål (which is the most common one) started off as a norweganized version of written danish, and nynorsk (directly translated as new norwegian) is a written language based of the many different norwegian dialects. Most people don’t have any trouble reading either, but you choose one or the other as your main language in school, and wrighting the other one can in some cases be a bit clunky. Because bokmål is the one that is used on 90% of norwegian media, nynorsk-students often don’t have a problem wrighting bokmål, but vice versa it can be a bit difficult
Edit: tl;dr: In addition to sami, norwegian has two writing systems, bokmål, which is based of the danish writing system, and nynorsk, which is based of norwegian dialects
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