Norwegian language

Sounds

The sound system of Norwegian is fairly similar to both Danish and Swedish, though no official spoken standard exists. The variant generally taught to foreign students is Eastern Norwegian (Bokmål) as it is spoken in and around the capital Oslo.

Related Topics:
Danish - Swedish

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Consonants

In Western Norwegian more guttural realizations of the /r/-phoneme are very common. Depending on phonetic context voiceless, {{IPA|}}, or voiced uvular fricatives .{{IPA|}}, are used.

Related Topics:
Voiceless - Voiced uvular fricative

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Vowels

There are, of course, many variations in vowel pronunciation in different dialects and idiolects of Norwegian, as in any language. The above vowel chart is meant to be fairly representative of Bokmål.

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