Apparently most americans think that norway is the capital of sweden. LoL.
When we became independent of sweden after several years of occupation there where many people who believed we needed a new language. Long story short it got the name New-Norwegian (nynorsk). It never replaced our original language but every student is required to be able to read and understand it, because a lot of our most famous literature is written in New-Norwegian.
Here is a sentence in both norwegian and new-norwegian.
Jeg heter aleksander.
Eg hetar aleksander.
Basically a few words were changed and some grammar was also changed.