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Norwegian dialects

Index Norwegian dialects

The Norwegian dialects are commonly divided into 4 main groups, 'Northern Norwegian' (nordnorsk), 'Central Norwegian' (trøndersk), 'Western Norwegian' (vestlandsk), and 'Eastern Norwegian' (østnorsk). [1]

112 relations: Accent (sociolinguistics), Accusative case, Akershus, Apocope, Arendal, Aust-Agder, Østerdalen, Østfold, Bardu, Bardufoss, Bergen, Bergensk, Bindal, Bokmål, Buskerud, Conservative (language), Creole language, Dative case, Dental and alveolar flaps, Dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills, Diphthong, Drangedal, Egil Børre Johnsen, Einar Haugen, Farsund, Finnmark, Fosen, Fyresdal, Grammar, Gudbrandsdalen, Hallingdal, Hallingmål-Valdris, Høyanger (village), Hedmark, Helgeland, Hjartdal, Holtålen, Hordaland, Icelandic language, Inge Krokann, Innherred, Ivar Aasen, Karasjok, Kautokeino, Kebabnorsk, Kragerø, Kristiansand, Kviteseid, Lierne, List of narrative techniques, ..., Målselv, Møre og Romsdal, Molde, Monophthongization, Mutual intelligibility, Namdalen, Nesseby, New High German, Nissedal, Nord-Trøndelag, Nordfjord, Nordland, Nordmøre, Norwegian language, Notodden, Numedal, Nynorsk, Odda (town), Oppdal, Oppland, Oslo, Palatalization (sound change), Røros, Retroflex flap, Riksmål, Ringerike (municipality), Rjukan, Rogaland, Romerike, Romsdal, Saltfjellet, Sami people, Sauda, Sør-Trøndelag, Selbu, Setesdal, Snåsa, Social group, Sogn, Sogn og Fjordane, Stavanger, Sunnfjord, Sunnmøre, Syntax, Tana, Norway, Telemark, Tinn, Tokke, Trøndersk, Troms, Trondheim, Tydal, Tyssedal, Urban East Norwegian, Valdres, Vest-Agder, Vestfold, Vestlandsk, Viken, Norway, Vinje, Vocabulary, Voiced uvular fricative. Expand index (62 more) »

Accent (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.

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Accusative case

The accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

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Akershus

Akershus is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo, and Østfold; it also has a short border with Sweden (Värmland).

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Apocope

In phonology, apocope is the loss (elision) of one or more sounds from the end of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.

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Arendal

Arendal is a municipality in the county of Aust-Agder in southeastern Norway.

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Aust-Agder

Aust-Agder (East Agder) is one of 18 counties (fylker) in Norway, bordering Telemark, Rogaland, and Vest-Agder counties.

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Østerdalen

Østerdalen is a valley and traditional district in Hedmark County, in Eastern Norway.

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Østfold

Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side of Oslofjord.

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Bardu

Bardu (Bearddu suohkan, Perttulan komuuni) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Bardufoss

Bardufoss is an urban area and commercial centre in the municipality of Målselv in Troms county, Norway.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Bergensk

Bergensk or Bergen dialect is a dialect of Norwegian used in Bergen, Norway.

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Bindal

Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county, Norway.

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Bokmål

Bokmål (literally "book tongue") is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk.

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Buskerud

Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold.

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Conservative (language)

In linguistics, a conservative form, variety, or modality is one that has changed relatively little over its history, or which is relatively resistant to change.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.

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Dative case

The dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacobī potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

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Dental and alveolar flaps

The alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills

The alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages.

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Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Drangedal

Drangedal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Egil Børre Johnsen

Egil Børre Johnsen (born 14 July 1936 in Oslo) is a Norwegian writer.

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Einar Haugen

Einar Ingvald Haugen (April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, author and Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.

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Farsund

is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.

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Fosen

Fosen is a traditional district in Trøndelag, consisting of the municipalities Osen, Roan, Åfjord, Bjugn, Ørland, Rissa, Agdenes, Snillfjord, Hemne, Hitra and Frøya.

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Fyresdal

Fyresdal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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Gudbrandsdalen

Gudbrandsdalen (Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Oppland.

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Hallingdal

Hallingdal (Halling Valley) is a valley as well as a traditional district located in Buskerud county in Norway.

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Hallingmål-Valdris

Hallingmål-Valdris (also known by the individual names Halling, Hallingdøl, or Valdresmål) is a group of Norwegian dialects traditionally spoken in the traditional districts Hallingdal, Buskerud and Valdres, Oppland.

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Høyanger (village)

Høyanger is the administrative centre of Høyanger Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

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Hedmark

Hedmark is a county in Norway, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west and Akershus to the south.

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Helgeland

Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway.

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Hjartdal

Hjartdal is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Holtålen

Holtålen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Hordaland

Hordaland is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.

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Inge Krokann

Inge Krokann (19 August 1893 – 27 September 1962) was a Norwegian writer.

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Innherred

Innherred or Innherad is a traditional district in Trøndelag county in the central part of Norway.

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Ivar Aasen

Ivar Andreas Aasen (5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.

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Karasjok

Karasjok or Kárášjohka (Northern Sami) or Kaarasjoki (Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kautokeino

(Norwegian) or Guovdageaidnu (Northern Sami) (also: Koutokeino and Koutokeino) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kebabnorsk

Kebab Norwegian (Kebabnorsk) is an ethnolect variety of Norwegian that incorporates words from languages of non-Western immigrants to Norway, such as Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto, Persian, and Punjabi.

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Kragerø

Kragerø is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Kristiansand

Kristiansand, historically Christianssand and Christiansand, is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Kviteseid

Kviteseid is a municipality in Telemark county in Norway.

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Lierne

Lierne is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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List of narrative techniques

A narrative technique (also known more narrowly for literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want—in other words, a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting.

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Målselv

Målselv (Málatvuomi suohkan) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal (Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway.

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Molde

Molde is a town and municipality in Romsdal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

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Monophthongization

Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Namdalen

Namdalen (Nååmesjevuemie) is a traditional district in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, Røyrvik, Fosnes, Nærøy, Høylandet, Namdalseid, Flatanger, Lierne, Leka, Namsskogan, and Vikna, all in Trøndelag county.

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Nesseby

Unjárga (Northern Sami) or Nesseby (Norwegian) (also Uuniemi in Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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New High German

New High German (NHG) is the term used for the most recent period in the history of the German language.

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Nissedal

Nissedal is a rural municipality in Telemark County, Norway.

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Nord-Trøndelag

Nord-Trøndelag ("North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway.

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Nordfjord

Nordfjord (Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.

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Nordland

Nordland (Nordlánda) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west.

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Nordmøre

Nordmøre (English: North-Møre) is a traditional district in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal.

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Norwegian language

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.

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Notodden

is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Numedal

Numedal is a valley and a traditional district in Eastern Norway located within the county of Buskerud.

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Nynorsk

Nynorsk (translates to New Norwegian or New Norse) is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål.

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Odda (town)

Odda is a town in Odda municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.

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Oppdal

is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Oppland

Oppland is a county in Norway, bordering Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Palatalization (sound change)

In linguistics, palatalization is a sound change that either results in a palatal or palatalized consonant or a front vowel, or is triggered by one of them.

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Røros

(Plassje) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Retroflex flap

The retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Riksmål

Riksmål is a written Norwegian language form, meaning the National Language, based on the Dano-Norwegian language used by the upper class in Christiania (modern Oslo) in the 19th century.

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Ringerike (municipality)

Ringerike is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway.

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Rjukan

Rjukan is a town and the administrative centre of Tinn municipality in Telemark, Norway.

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Rogaland

Rogaland is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder, and Vest-Agder counties.

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Romerike

Romerike is a traditional district located north-east of Oslo, in what is today south-eastern Norway.

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Romsdal

Romsdal is the name of a traditional district in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, located between Nordmøre and Sunnmøre.

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Saltfjellet

Saltfjellet is a mountain area in Nordland county, Norway that separates the two regions of Helgeland and Salten.

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Sami people

The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.

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Sauda

Sauda is a municipality and industrial town in Rogaland county, Norway.

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Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway.

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Selbu

Selbu is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Setesdal

Setesdal (older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Aust-Agder County in southern Norway.

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Snåsa

Snåsa (Norwegian) or Snåase (Sami) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Social group

In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

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Sogn

Sogn is a traditional district in Western Norway (Vestlandet).

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Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane (English: Sogn and Fjordane) is a county in western Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland.

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Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway.

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Sunnfjord

Sunnfjord (the southern fjord - in contrast to Nordfjord) is a traditional district in Western Norway located in Sogn og Fjordane county.

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Sunnmøre

Sunnmøre (Møre) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

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Tana, Norway

or is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Telemark

Telemark is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder.

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Tinn

Tinn is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Tokke

Tokke is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Trøndersk

Trøndersk, also known as trøndermål, trøndsk and trønder, is a Norwegian dialect, or rather a group of several sub-dialects.

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Troms

Troms (italic; Tromssa) is a county in Northern Norway.

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Trondheim

Trondheim (historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Tydal

Tydal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

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Tyssedal

Tyssedal is a village in Odda municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.

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Urban East Norwegian

Urban East Norwegian (UEN) or Standard East Norwegian (Bokmål: standard østnorsk, Nynorsk: standard austnorsk) is the de facto standard variety of East Norwegian and an unofficial spoken standard of Bokmål.

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Valdres

Valdres is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between Gudbrandsdal and Hallingdal.

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Vest-Agder

Vest-Agder (West Agder) is a county in Norway, bordering Rogaland to the West and Aust-Agder to the East.

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Vestfold

Vestfold is a county in Norway, on the western shore of the Oslofjord.

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Vestlandsk

Vestandsk or Vestlandske dialekter (West Norwegian) is a collective term for the dialects that are spoken on the coast of western Norway in the area ranging from Romsdal in the north to Agder in the south.

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Viken, Norway

Viken (Old Norse: Vík or Víkin) or Vika, was the historical name for a district in southeastern Norway, including the modern day Swedish province Bohuslän, which consisted of the area surrounding the Oslofjord and Skagerrak, the strait running between Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark.

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Vinje

Vinje is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Vocabulary

A vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a person's language.

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Voiced uvular fricative

The voiced uvular fricative or approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_dialects

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