# Merging Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/merging-norwegian-nynorsk-and-norwegian-bokmal/130474>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Created:** [May 19, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/merging-norwegian-nynorsk-and-norwegian-bokmal/130474 "2024-05-19T17:05:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![bozden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/bozden/32/51381_2.png) [@bozden](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/bozden)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/merging-norwegian-nynorsk-and-norwegian-bokmal/130474/6 "2024-05-22T21:39:08Z")

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Currently, the variant field in the `.tsv` files is for the spoken language (voice corpus), which comes from demographic info set in user profiles (if any). They are [introduced in 2022](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/weekly-update-language-variants-and-moreeee/100525) and recently a [new call](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/repost-a-new-round-of-variant-intake/128642) has been made to add more. You can see currently available ones all together [here](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/api/v1/language/variants).

The new PRs I mentioned above are for the sentence variants. If you put many variants into a single dataset, people tend to vote NO to sentences written in another variant. Like -ise, -ize cases in English or Anatolian Turkish vs Cypriot Turkish, where writing and meaning of words might change.

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