Depending on where you are coming from, Norwegian has a lot of vowels. Nine vowels, if we don’t distinguish short and long vowels or diphthongs (glide vowels). If Arabic is your native language, that’s going from 3 to 9. For many Romance languages, that’s 5 to 9. Two of the more unusual vowels in Norwegian are Y and Ø. These are somewhat unusual, despite there being similar sounds in many languages.
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