NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Norwegian Sign Language

Norwegian Sign Language is the preferred sign language amongst deaf Norwegians. NSL is an important language in Norway, there are a lot of Sign Language-organizations and some TV-programs in NSL. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation airs Nyheter på tegnspråk (News in sign language) daily and Tid for tegn (Time for signs) weekly. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages â€” Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express fluidly a speakers thoughts. ... Sign language is not universal. ... The legal recognition of sign languages is one of the major concerns of the international Deaf community. ... Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) - the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - is the Norwegian state-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. ...

Category: Sign languages Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Norway. ... The Norwegian language struggle (sprÃ¥kstriden) is an ongoing controversy within Norwegian culture and politics related to spoken and written Norwegian. ... LandsmÃ¥l was the name of one of the two official standards for writing the Norwegian language between 1885 and 1929 (the other one being first Danish, later RiksmÃ¥l). ... HÃ¸gnorsk is a form of written Norwegian that is considered a more pure version of the minority language, Nynorsk. ... Nynorsk (Neonorwegian) is one of the two officially sanctioned written standards of the Norwegian language. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... BokmÃ¥l (lit. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Dano-Norwegian (in Norwegian Dansk-norsk) is the name that users of Nynorsk sometimes use to refer (almost always pejoratively) to Norwegian BokmÃ¥l. ... Norsk språkråd (The Norwegian Language Council) is the Norwegian governments advisory body in matters pertaining to the Norwegian language and language planning. ... The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) was founded in 1953 by several notable Norwegian authors and poets, among them Arnulf Øverland, Sigurd Hoel, A. H. Winsnes, Cora Sandel and Francis Bull, who disagreed with the official language policy aiming to merge the... Noregs MÃ¥llag (Unoffical translation: The Language Organisation of Norway) is the main organisation for Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the Norwegian languages. ... RiksmÃ¥lsforbundet (unofficial translation: The Language Organisation of Norway) is the main organisation for RiksmÃ¥l, one of the Norwegian languages. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ash (Ã†, Ã¦; pronounced ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet for English. ... Image:Latin letter O with The Ã˜ (miniscule: Ã¸) is a vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets. ... Ã…, or Ã¥, is a letter, representing a vowel, in the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Walloon, Chamorro and Istro-Romanian language alphabets. ...