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These are writing systems, not languages. As I understand it all Norwegian speakers _speak_ the same language, they just represent that language differently whe

• sampo 9y ago
  > As I understand it all Norwegian speakers _speak_ the same language I am not Norwegian so I might not get this entirely correct. The British have "BBC English" or "Oxford English" and the Americans have "Hollywood English", but Norway doesn't have such a unifying standard for the spoken language. People speak their own dialects, and the different dialects can vary quite a lot. There is no standard dialect for the Norwegian language as a whole, and all dialects are by now mutually intelligible. Hence, widely different dialects are used frequently and alongside each other, in almost every aspect of society. Criticism of a dialect may be considered criticism of someone's personal identity and place of upbringing, and is considered impolite. Not using one's proper dialect would be bordering on awkward in many situations, as it may signal a wish to take on an identity or a background which one does not have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_dialects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_dialects