Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe, South America
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
- 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
German and English Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
goede Nacht
god natt
Good Evening
goedenavond
god kveld
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
goedemorgen
god morgen
Please
alsjeblieft
Vær så snill
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
pardon
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Gronings
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Sogn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Nederlands
Norsk
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Norsk
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Niederländisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Norwegians
Origin
AD 450-500
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
norw1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional
Dutch 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 Dutch and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Norwegian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch 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 Dutch and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.