Gjert Kristoffersen (; 13 August 1949 in

Arendal Arendal () is a municipality in Agder county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the region of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Arendal (which is also the seat of Agder county). Some of the notab ...

– 29 May 2021) was a Norwegian linguist, a phonetician and a professor at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

. His native dialect of Norwegian was

Arendalsk Arendalsk, Arendal dialect or Arendal Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk: , ; the Arendal dialect: ) is a dialect of Norwegian used in Arendal Arendal () is a municipality in Agder county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the region of ...

. He was

married Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...

to librarian and biographer Jan Olav Gatland.

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1949 births 2021 deaths People from Arendal Linguists from Norway Phoneticians University of Tromsø alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Road incident deaths in Norway 20th-century Norwegian LGBT people {{Norway-linguist-stub