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I will break down each individual language here, so you can understand exaclty what you are learning.
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken in Norway, and certain Norwegian settlements within the United States.
There are two 'official' forms of Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk. The form taught on this site is the more
common of the two (Bokmål). Norwegian has approx. 4.7 million speakers (according to Wikipedia, so don't quote me on that!).
Icelandic is also a North Germanic language spoken primarly in Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Denmark.
Some people may also speak it within the United States (as with Norwegian). Icelandic is the closest active language
to Old Norse, where all the North Germanic (Scandinavian) languages came from.
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| A fjord in Norway |
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Norway is a beautiful country
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Germanic languages
You may not know that the Vikings were a Germanic race; well, so are the
Scandinavian languages! Norwegian and Icelandic belong to the North Germanic language branch, though they bear little resemblance
to each other, as opposed to different Scandinavian languages.
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