Historically a lot of consonants were mutated. Another interesting feature is that both dynamic and musical stress are used in the language, which is met nowhere else in Indo-European. There are three genders, though feminine is used rarely. Two cases include common and genitive, the geniotive marker is -s . Two articles are definite and indefinite, both are declined in number and in gender.
Adjectives have strong and weak variants.
The flective structure of the verb was broken, it is not conjugated in person nor number. Flectively formed moods and tenses were replaced by complex constructions with auxiliary verbs. The Norwegian language does not contain much of the modern scientific and technical terms, so it had to borrow them from Danish. Some genuine Norwegian vocabulary was attempted to introduce in the official speech, but they are mainly colloquial and sound even rough for the literature language. Writing Latin alphabet Close Contacts Danish, Swedish, formerly Icelandic.