Modern Norwegian is the Norwegian language spoken and written in Norway after the Middle Norwegian transition period (1350-1536). The transition to Modern Norwegian is usually dated to 1525, or 1536, the year of the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway (1536-1814). One often contrasts Modern Norwegian to Danish and Dano-Norwegian, but at the same time Danish and Dano-Norwegian has had a substantial impact on Modern Norwegian dialects. Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. ... The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, consisting of Denmark and Norway, including Norways possessions Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a term used for the two united kingdoms after their amalgamation as one state in 1536. ... Dano-Norwegian (in Norwegian Dansk-norsk) is the name that users of Nynorsk sometimes use to refer (almost always pejoratively) to Norwegian Bokmål. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ...

The Norwegian linguistic term for "Modern Norwegian" is "Nynorsk", literally "New Norwegian". However, this is not the same as the written standard Nynorsk, an orthography based on Norwegian dialects created in the 19th century by Ivar Aasen. This is one of the two official orthographies of Modern Norwegian, the other being Bokmål which has Danish and Dano-Norwegian roots. Nynorsk (Neonorwegian) is one of the two officially sanctioned written standards of the Norwegian language. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ivar Andreas Aasen (August 5, 1813 - September 23, 1896) was a Norwegian philologist and lexicographer. ... BokmÃ¥l (lit. ...

In contrast to Old Norse language, Modern Norwegian has simplified inflections and a more fixed syntax. Low German vocabulary is to a considerable degree substituted for Old Norse, and this is the main reason why Modern Norwegian, together with Danish and Swedish, is no longer mutually intelligible with Insular Nordic (Icelandic and Faroese); see North Germanic languages. This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. ... Inflection or inflexion refers to a modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) so that it reflects grammatical (i. ... Low German (also called Plattdeutsch, Plattdüütsch or Low Saxon) is a name for the regional language varieties of the Low Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany, southern Denmark and eastern Netherlands. ... The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages (including English, German, and Dutch) and the East Germanic languages (now extinct). ...

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