Native Name: Norwegian (Norsk)
Number of Speakers: 5 million
Official language of: Norway
Script used: Latin (Norwegian Variant)
Sample of Norwegian
Spreadbetting Website in Norwegian & Danish
Norwegian is a North Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in mainly in Norway. There are also some speakers of Norwegian in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Spain, Canada and the USA.
After Norway separated from Denmark in 1814, Danish continued to be used in schools until the 1830s, when a movement to create a new national language emerged. Danish differed to such an extent from spoken Norwegian that it was difficult to learn and it was taken as a principle of sovereignty that every country should have its own language. Unfortunately, rather than making the Norwegian language simpler than Danish the debate about the creation of a national language resulted in two forms: Landsmål (national language), based on colloquial Norwegian and regional dialects and Riksmål (national language), which was primarily a written language and very similar to Danish. An attempt to unify the two languages into a single one, called Samnorsk was abandoned only in 2002.
Norwegian Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. translate Norwegian to English and English to Norwegian. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Norwegian as well as translation and localization of web sites into Norwegian. We are based in Sheffield, UK and handle language projects for local clients in commercial centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London but also have many International clients from around the world.
