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This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Norwegian is one of the two official languages in Norway, along with Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken by less than one percent of the population. Norwegian is one of the working languages of the Nordic Council. Like most of the languages in Europe, the Norwegian language descends from the Proto-Indo-European language.

As early Indo-Europeans spread across Europe, they became isolated and new languages were developed. Proto-Norse is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic during the first centuries AD in what is today Southern Sweden. Around 800 AD, the script was simplified to the Younger Futhark, and inscriptions became more abundant. Around 1030, Christianity came to Scandinavia, bringing with it an influx of Latin borrowings and the Roman alphabet. The Scandinavian languages at this time are not considered to be separate languages, although there were minor differences among what are customarily called Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Gutnish, Old Danish, and Old Swedish.