Language · ISO 639-3 nob · nb
Norwegian Bokmål Language bokmål
Norwegian Bokmål is a language spoken by about 11 million people in 1 country. It is an official language of Norway. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Norwegian Bokmål is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Norwegian Bokmål
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin script
About the Norwegian Bokmål language
Norwegian Bokmål (bokmål) is spoken by about 11 million people, which makes it the 113th most spoken language in the world — just behind Czech (11 million) and ahead of Uighur (10 million).
Where is Norwegian Bokmål spoken?
Norwegian Bokmål is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Norway (5.5 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Norway — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Norwegian Bokmål is an official language in 1 country: Norway.
Writing system and status
Norwegian Bokmål is written in the Latin script.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 nb, ISO 639-3 nob.
Frequently asked questions about Norwegian Bokmål
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.