1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Norway
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Norway
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
3.2 Thank You
takk
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
god natt
3.5 Good Evening
god kveld
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
3.8 Please
Vær så snill
3.9 Sorry
unnskyld
3.10 Bye
ha det
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sognamål
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sogn
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
Rank: 73 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Norsk
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Norsk
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
Nynorsk
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
Norwegians
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1300 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
no
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nor
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
nor
7.3 ISO 639 3
nor
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
norw1258
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional