The Phonology of Norwegian PDF
by Gjert Kristoffersen
Part of the The Phonology of the World's Languages series
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A the end of the fourteenth century, Norway, having previously been an independent kingdom, became by conquest a province of Denmark and remained so for three centuries.
In1814, as part of the fall-out from the Napoleonic wars, the country became a largely independent nation within the monarchy of Sweden.
By this time, however, Danish had become the language of government, commerce, and education, as well as of the middle and upper classes.
Nationalistic Norwegianssought to reestablish native identity by creating and promulgating a new language based partly on rural dialects and partly on Old Norse.
The upper and middle classes sought to retain a form of Norwegian close to Danish that would be intelligible to themselves and to their neighbours in Sweden andDenmark.
The controversy has gone on ever since. One result is that the standard dictionaries of Norwegian ignore pronunciation, for no version can be counted as 'received'.
Another is that there has been considerable variety and change in Norwe
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