Useful links to language resources
Should you have questions about clear, good and correct Norwegian language use, please contact the Language Council's response service.
Online language resources
The Norwegian Language Collections at the University of Bergen Library have a number of language resources, including:
The Language Council has several language resources under the menu “Language Help”, go to spelling rules, practical grammar or writing advice.
Norsk ordbank (Norwegian Word Database) is also available for download at Språkbanken at the National Library under a CC-BY license. The dictionary contains word lists for Bokmål and Nynorsk with information on word class and standard inflection.
Other quality-assured and freely available dictionaries
- Norsk Ordbok: The dictionary of the Norwegian vernacular and written Nynorsk
- NAOB: The Norwegian Academy's Dictionary: Bokmål and Riksmål from the early 1800s until today
- LEXIN: dictionaries for minority language students in primary, secondary and adult education
- Islex: A dictionary in Icelandic-Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Icelandic-Swedish, Icelandic-Danish, Icelandic-Faroese and Icelandic-Finnish
- ordnet.dk: A joint website for several Danish dictionaries and word corpora
- svenska.se: A joint website for several Swedish dictionaries
- sprotin.fo: A joint website for several Faeroese dictionaries
- Giellatekno: A joint website for dictionaries documenting eight Saami languages and several other languages
- sanakirja.fi: A joint website for several Finnish dictionaries