Norwegian vowels have a short sound and a long sound. There are a couple of general rules that signifies either a short or long vowel sound.

The Norwegian Alphabet has 29 characters. It incorporates the standard Latin Alphabet with 26 characters, though not all of the sounds and characters are used in the modern Norwegian language. Cc, Qq, Ww, Xx & Zz where used in Medieval times, however today they are only used for names and international words. The Norwegian Alphabet also contains Ææ, Øø and Åå.

The Norwegian Alphabet
The Norwegian Alphabet has 29 characters. It incorporates the standard Latin Alphabet with 26 characters, though not all of the sounds and characters are used in the modern Norwegian language. Cc, Qq, Ww, Xx & Zz where used in Medieval times, however today they are only used for names and international words. The Norwegian Alphabet also contains Ææ, Øø & Åå. These are vowels and are used in all Scandinavian languages (though not written the same).

A Little Grammatical Background
A grapheme, or character, is the smallest unit of a writing language. Alphabet symbols or letters, Chinese characters, numbers and punctuation marks are all graphemes. Single and multiple graphemes, know as digraphs and trigraphs, represent one phoneme or fundamental sound such as ‘rs’ and ‘skj’.