Norwegian languages

On Aug/27/2002, BP Jonsson wrote:

> I know about the situation.  A little like Bohuslän, where I come from,
> which used to be part of Norway until the 17. century.  For some reason
> people there don't know/aren't interested in the fact tho.  My father used
> to say that standard Norwegian and standard Swedish suit our dialect
> equally bad, which is perhaps part of the explanation.
        There's something that I've always wondered about: IIRC,
there're two norwegian official languages, bokmal and nyorsk (though I
don't know if they're spelled right like this O:-)). What are their
differences? I'm sure that spoken they are quite different, but swedish
and danish look very similar to me, and I suppose that bokmal and nyorsk
can't be so much different from them :-)

--
        Roberto Suarez Soto

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