Your browser does not support the audio element. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Before front vowels < i, e, y > cf. Your browser does not support the audio element. Rolling R as in Scottish, never mute as in English «car». Your browser does not support the audio element. Try to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation. /s/ in «circus», Before back vowels < a, o, u > cf. The Norwegian alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet and is identical to the Danish alphabet. For foreign speakers the most difficult ones is: u, y, æ, ø and å. Pronounce the Norwegian alphabet without feeling frustrated and wanting to give up like this Tuckered-out bird below. Family names may not follow modern orthography, and as such retain the digraph aa where å would be used today. Below you will find each letter in upper and lower case as well as the pronunciation of the Norwegian «name» of the letter. The letter Å (HTML å) was officially introduced in Norwegian in 1917, replacing Aa or aa.
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Press Alt with the appropriate letter. The differences between the forms are minor, and Norwegians are educated in both. /k/ in «camping», In Norwegian, < qu > is pronounced as /kv/, cf. (In Norwegian) Below is a link to one the best sites I have found on learning Basic Norwegian.
En lur rev. Seldom used in native words, mostly pronounced as «k». Today, Norwegian is spoken by 5 million people in Norway, as well as some expats and their descendants. Norwegian Alphabet Pronunciation The Norwegian Alphabet consists of 29 letters of them 9 letters are vowels: a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø and å. The Norwegian alphabet has 29 letters – those in the English alphabet, plus three vowels: Æ, Ø and Å. All Rights Reserved. There are some resources for Norwegian learners, eg. Below is a short overview comparing the pronunciation of the Norwegian alphabet compared to English. The former digraphAa still occurs in personal names. Both standards use a 29-letter variant of the Latin alphabet. Your browser does not support the audio element. Also, the collating order for these three letters is different: Å, Ä, Ö. Copyright - Disclaimer Privacy Policy Link to Us. Your browser does not support the audio element.
For example, to type å, æ or â, hold Alt and press A one, two or three times. Norwegian pronunciation is fairly straightforward once you get the hang of the compound letters, and remember that single vowels are always a single, non-diphtongised sound, as in most continental European languages.
I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some Norwegian Alphabet, consonants and vowels. Exception: as compound «kj» (cf. Exception: as the «j» sound in the word «year» when placed before vowels i, y or diphtongs ei, øy. One example is ein gut ("a boy") versus éin gut ("one boy"), in Nynorsk, as opposed to En Gutt in Bokmål. Ressurssidene (in Norwegian) and Lexin (quite useful, also has visual dictionary sheets for novices) are examples. This rule does not apply to non-Scandinavian names, so a modern atlas would list the German city of Aachen under A but list the Danish city of Aabenraa under Å. There are two official forms of written Norwegian – Bokmål (lit. The letters: c, q, w, x og z, is almost only used in loanwords. Dialectal variations occur, eg. Loanwords may be spelled with other diacritics, most notably ü, á, à and é,[citation needed] following the conventions of the original language. Shift + click a button to insert its upper-case form. Knowing these characters will allow you to read and write commonly used expressions and words with ease. Here's everything you need to know about Norway's 29-letter alphabet.
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Flashcards. The Norwegian alphabet has three extra vowels that English speakers must master.
Norwegian (especially the Nynorsk variant) also uses several letters with diacritic signs: é, è, ê, ó, ò, â, and ô.
The letter Å (HTML å) was officially introduced in Norwegian in 1917, replacing Aa or aa. Never as in the word «I». Approximately as the final vowel in «new». Your browser does not support the audio element. The overlap between English and Norwegian speech sounds is smaller than what the list below seems to indicate as the list only refers to the letters. The Norwegian alphabet has 29 letters – those in the English alphabet, plus three vowels: Æ, Ø and Å.