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Esperanto vs Norwegian


Norwegian vs Esperanto


Countries

Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America  
Norway  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
1  
14

National Language
East Asia, European Union  
Norway  

Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America  
Europe, South America  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Nynorsk  

Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto  
Norwegian Language Council  

Interesting Facts
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
  • 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
Not Available  
Swedish and Danish Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
32  
14
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
27  
17
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks  
3
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Halo  
hallo  

Thank You
Dankon  
takk  

How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?  
hvordan har du det?  

Good Night
Bonan nokton  
god natt  

Good Evening
Bonan vesperon  
god kveld  

Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon  
god ettermiddag  

Good Morning
Bonan matenon  
god morgen  

Please
Mi petas  
Vær så snill  

Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!  
unnskyld  

Bye
Ĝis poste  
ha det  

I Love You
Mi amas vin  
Jeg Elsker Deg  

Excuse Me
Pardonu!  
unnskyld meg  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present  
Jamtlandic  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Jamtland,Harjedalen  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Not present  
Sognamål  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Sogn  

Dialect 3
Not present  
Hallingmål-Valdris  

Where They Speak
Not present  
Hallingdal, Valdres  

Total No. Of Dialects
0  
19  
17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
2.20 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
0.20 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million  
34
Not Available  

Native Name
Esperanto  
Norsk  

Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia  
Norsk  

French Name
espéranto  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  

German Name
Esperanto  
Nynorsk  

Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Norwegians  

History

Origin
1887  
c. 1300 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Northern (Scandinavian)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian  

Standard Forms
Esperanto  
Nynorsk, Bokmål  

Signed Forms
Signuno  
Signed Norwegian  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
eo  
no  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
epo  
nor  

ISO 639 2/B
epo  
nor  

ISO 639 3
epo  
nor  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
espe1235  
norw1258  

Linguasphere
51-AAB-da  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Constructed  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Fusional  

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Esperanto and Norwegian Language History

Comparison of Esperanto vs Norwegian language history gives us differences between origin of Esperanto and Norwegian language. History of Esperanto language states that this language originated in 1887 whereas history of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Esperanto and Norwegian Language History.

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Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Esperanto and Norwegian language. Esperanto word for "Hello" is Halo or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Esperanto Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Esperanto vs Norwegian Difficulty

The Esperanto vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.

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