Gjert Kristoffersen (; 13 August 1949 in

Arendal Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the munici ...

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

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

. His native dialect of Norwegian was Arendalsk. He was

married Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...

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 LGBTQ people {{Norway-linguist-stub