The Concordia Language Villages are located near Bemidji and this has, perhaps, been influential in the existence of several language conversational groups ( including French, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, and German ) that meet weekly in local coffee houses.

Bokmål is regulated by the governmental Norwegian Language Council.

A more conservative orthographic standard, commonly known as Riksmål, is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

The term Riksmål, meaning National Language, was first proposed by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1899 as a name for the Norwegian variety of written Danish as well as spoken Dano-Norwegian.

The Riksmålsforbundet organised a parents ' campaign against Samnorsk in 1951, and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was founded in 1953.

In 2000, together with Trond Trosterud, he co-authored Software localization into Nynorsk Norwegian, a report commissioned by the Norwegian Language Council.

He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the samnorsk policy ( aiming to merge the two languages Nynorsk and Bokmål ) prevailing with Noregs Mållag ( Norwegian Language Union ).

From 1994 to 2009, Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, as well as at the Design Research Center at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen from 2003 to 2009.

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The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature () is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Dano-Norwegian language.

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was represented, along with other non-governmental language organisations, in the Norwegian Language Council, which regulates the official Bokmål and Nynorsk languages, since its establishment in 1972 until it was reorganized in 2005.

The following are current members of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature:

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The Norwegian Language Council (, 1972 – 2004 ) was the regulation authority for the Norwegian language.

She manoeuvred to have the Norwegian Council recognize him as heir to the throne of Norway, in spite of his not being first in the line of succession, and he was installed as king of Norway in 1389, still with Margaret as his guardian.

One of the last structures of the Kalmar Union, or, rather, medieval separateness, remained until 1536 when the Danish Privy Council, in the aftermath of a civil war, unilaterally declared Norway to be a Danish province, without consulting their Norwegian colleagues.

These partners include national government agencies such as DFID, ECHO, EuropeAid, USAID ; UN agencies such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ); non-governmental organizations such as Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services and Norwegian Refugee Council ; as well as corporate partners such as TNT N. V., YUM!

* 1921-Founding of International Missionary Council ( IMC ); Norwegian Mission Council formed ; Columbans enter China

* Norwegian Council of State

In 2005, the Norwegian Culture Council selected The Grudge to be freely available for listening to the public in libraries across the country.

The Norwegian Council of the Realm was divided.

The question of the Norwegian succession had thereby been decided between Denmark and Sweden, and the Norwegian Council was left with only one candidate for the throne.

John's father, King Christian I, in 1458 had the Norwegian Council of the Realm commit to electing Christian's eldest son as next king of Norway upon his death.

John used the title heir to the throne of Norway, in line with Norway's old status as a hereditary kingdom, but this was a claim the Norwegian Council did not immediately recognise.

No serious rival candidates to the Norwegian throne existed, but the Council was determined to demonstrate Norway's status as a sovereign kingdom.

The Swedish Council failed to turn up at the meeting, but the Norwegian and Danish councils proceeded to produce a joint declaration containing the terms for John's rule, and electing him king.

From 1996 cooperation with The Norwegian Music Council has led to music seminars for youth and musicians at a high level of performance as a part of the festival.

A rivalry ensued between Charles and Christian for the throne of Norway, which had also been ruled by Christopher, with both kings gaining support from various factions in the Norwegian Council of the realm.

The Conference Building holds the Security Council Chamber, which was a gift from Norway and was designed by the Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg.

( born 5 November 1950, né Thorbjørn Johansen ) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, currently serving as the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe ( since 2009 ).

He said he decided, with " great sadness ", to leave Norwegian politics because he was applying for the position of Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.

During the early autumn of 1343 the most prominent members of the Norwegian Council of the Realm attended a meeting with Magnus at Varberg Castle.

Though the meeting at Båhus Castle forged historic ties to the old elective monarchy in Norway, the acclamation documents created by the Council of the Realm stipulated that Haakon was to rule over only parts of Norway, and it was also carefully documented that if he would die without a legitimate son the Norwegian Law of Succession would apply, thereby ensuring that the hereditary monarchy would be upheld in Norway.

* Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council

For example, the song ' Oppskrift for Herrefolk ' ( Recipe for a Master Race ) on her breakthrough CD ' Gula Gula ', sung in Norwegian unlike the rest of the songs which are in Sami, speaks directly of ' discrimination and hate ', and ironically recommends ways of oppressing a minority: " Use bible and booze and bayonet "; " Use articles of law against ancient rights ".

The name was really derived from the Norwegian blåhval, coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun ; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874.

The last person to pass through Ellis Island was a Norwegian merchant seaman by the name of Arne Peterssen in 1954.

* Fenriz, stage name of member in Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

Edwige is a French version of the name ; Edvige is the Italian version ; Eduviges is the Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan version, all of them from the Latinized version ( Eduvigis is also common ), Hadewych is a Dutch version ; Hedvig is a Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish version.

An archaic name for both the Skagerrak and Kattegat was the Norwegian Sea or Jutland Sea ( Knýtlinga saga mentions the name Jótlandshaf ).

BI Norwegian Business School former name BI Norwegian School of Management () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe.

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

Simula is a name for two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.

The name continues on as Norwegian Ty, Swedish Tyr, Danish Tyr, while it remains Týr in Modern Icelandic and Faroese.

The Royal Norwegian Navy's HNoMS Rap — the name meaning ' fast '— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, but was not equipped with self-propelled torpedoes until 1879.

Viking derives from the name Vík ( in ) ' the Norwegian coast of the Skagerrak Sea ' ( modern Viken ).

Other languages spell the letter's name in a similar way: zeta in Italian, Spanish and Icelandic, zäta in Swedish, zet in Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Czech, zæt in Danish, zett in Norwegian and German, zède in French, and zê in Portuguese.

The Old Norse name is still used for pines in some modern north European languages, in Danish, fyr, in Norwegian fura / fure / furu, Swedish, fura / furu, and Föhre in German, but in modern English, fir is now restricted to Fir ( Abies ) and Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga ).

By far, the largest part of this population is the northeast Arctic cod, as it is labelled by the ICES, or the Arcto-Norwegian cod stock, also referred to as skrei, a Norwegian name meaning something like " the wanderer ", distinguishing it from coastal cod.

Some Early Modern examples of the latter practice, where the patronymic was placed after the given name and was followed by the surname, are Norwegian Peder Claussøn Friis, the son of Nicolas Thorolfsen Friis ( Claus in Claussøn being short for Nicolas ) and Danish Thomas Hansen Kingo, the son of Hans Thomsen Kingo.

The name Greenland ( Grænland in Old Norse and modern Icelandic, Grønland in modern Danish and Norwegian ) has its roots in this colonization and is attributed to Erik the Red ( the modern Inuit call it Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning " Land of the Kalaallit ( Greenlanders )").

Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor ( Norse Thor in northern Europe ), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur / Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch.