The Norwegian Language

• Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken by about 5 million people, mainly in Norway.
• It has two official written forms: Bokmål and Nynorsk, reflecting the country's complex linguistic history.
• Norwegian is closely related to Danish and Swedish, with which it is mutually intelligible to a large extent.

About Tingha

Tingha is a small town on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia in Guyra Shire. It is 30 kilometres south of Inverell and 629 kilometres north-north-east of Sydney. Tingha is an Aboriginal word for ‘flat or level'. Before European settlement the Tingha area was occupied by the Anaiwan, a sub-group of the Murri Aboriginal people. Many of their descendants still live in the surrounding area.

Tingha was first settled in 1841 by Sydney Hudson Darby and became a mining town after tin was discovered there in the 1870s. Within a year Australia’s first commercial tin mines were operating at a private settlement known as Armidale Crossing. Over 6,000 people arrived and more than 25% of the miners were Chinese. The Wing Hing Long Museum is a reminder of that heritage. Armidale Crossing Post Office opened on 1 September 1872 and was renamed Tingha the next month.

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