Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
Norway
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Spanish
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
god morgen
  
Please
Mesedez
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Agur
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not available
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Norsk
  
French Name
basque
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Basque and Norwegian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Basque and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Basque and Norwegian language. Basque word for "Hello" is Kaixo or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Basque Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Basque vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Basque vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Basque Alphabets and Norwegian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Basque and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Basque and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Basque is 88 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.