TY - JOUR AU - Özerk, Kamil PY - 2017/08/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Norwegian educational system, the linguistic diversity in the country and the education of different minority groups JF - International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education JA - IEJEE VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/32 SP - 43-60 AB - <p>Linguistic diversity has always been and still is one of the current issues in the Norwegian<br>educational system. Norwegian is the official language of the country, but, there have been<br>several distinct dialects and two official written Norwegian languages in the country since 1885.<br>One of them is Bokmål and the other is Nynorsk. There has also been an indigenous Sami<br>people with three different Sami languages in the country: Northern Sami, Lulesami and<br>Southern Sami in the country. At the same time there are two national minority groups, Kvens<br>and the Roma people, who have their own languages. In addition about 200 languages are<br>represented among linguistic minority children with immigrant parents/grandparents. This<br>linguistic diversity means that almost 15% of Norway’s population of 5 million has another first<br>language than Norwegian. This paper gives a brief account of policies and challenges related to<br>multilingualism and multilingual education in the Norwegian educational system.</p> ER -