{"id":255295,"date":"2025-06-08T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al.fhs.no\/learn-norwegian-sign-language-al-folk-high-school-sign-language-program\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:08:03","slug":"sign-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Norwegian Sign Language \u2013 \u00c5l Folk High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interested in sign language? We offer courses for all levels \u2013 whether you are a beginner, want to brush up, or want to learn more.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian Sign Language has its own grammar that differs from spoken Norwegian. It is a simultaneous language, which means that you can express several things at the same time \u2013 for example, combining hand gestures with facial expressions and body language. This provides a more nuanced and visual form of communication. The sentence structure is also different. Where Norwegian spoken language often follows the order subject\u2013verb\u2013object, sign language often uses the structure time\u2013place\u2013actor\u2013action. Et eksempel: “I g\u00e5r hjemme sn\u00f8en l\u00e5 h\u00f8y Ole m\u00e5ke” kan i norsk talespr\u00e5k oversettes til “Ole m\u00e5kte mye sn\u00f8 hjemme i g\u00e5r”. Dette viser spr\u00e5kets visuelle og strukturelle egenart.<\/p>\n

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Norsk tegnspr\u00e5k har en sammenhengende historie som startet i 1815, da Andreas M\u00f8ller, en d\u00f8v mann utdannet i K\u00f8benhavn, returnerte til Trondheim. Der m\u00f8tte han andre d\u00f8ve, og i 1825 etablerte han Norges f\u00f8rste skole for d\u00f8ve. Rundt 1850 ble det ogs\u00e5 etablert skoler i Oslo, Kristiansand og Bergen, noe som f\u00f8rte til utviklingen av tre regionale dialekter: \u00f8stnorsk, vestnorsk og tr\u00f8ndersk tegnspr\u00e5k. D\u00f8ve begynte \u00e5 samles rundt skolene og dannet etter hvert d\u00f8veforeninger. Den f\u00f8rste foreningen ble stiftet i Oslo i 1878, og Norges D\u00f8veforbund ble grunnlagt i 1918. Disse foreningene ble viktige arenaer for sosialt liv og tegnspr\u00e5kbruk. P\u00e5 slutten av 1800-tallet etablerte d\u00f8ve egne menigheter og D\u00f8vekirken. Senere fulgte sportsklubber, teater, videreg\u00e5ende oppl\u00e6ring, folkeh\u00f8yskole og medier der norsk tegnspr\u00e5k<\/a> var hovedspr\u00e5ket. This has contributed to preserving and strengthening the role of sign language in the deaf community in Norway.<\/p>\n

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Interested in sign language? We offer courses for all levels \u2013 whether you are a beginner, want to brush up, or want to learn more.

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En tverrfaglig linje med hovedfokus <\/span>p\u00e5<\/span> tegnspr\u00e5k, friluftsliv og kunst. Dette er en spennende og kreativ linje som gir elevene muligheten til \u00e5 designe linjens innhold.\u00a0 Passer for elever med alle typer h\u00f8rselstap.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>Norwegian Sign Language has its own grammar that differs from spoken Norwegian. It is a simultaneous language, which means that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255206,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255295","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-u.al.fhs.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}