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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
Lars> [...] Languages that are kinda agglutinative are fun!  (And
Lars> Norwegians have two to choose from.) [...]
>> 
>> Hm?  Two?  So Norwegian isn't just Norwegian?  I didn't know that.

> We have two (official) written Norwegian languages.  It's fun.  

They aren't languages in the linguistic sense.  They are different
written standards for one language (with many dialects).

Blame nationalistic fervor vs. conservatism after shaking off first
our Danish colonial masters in 1814, and then our new Swedish colonial
masters in 1905.