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Estonian vs Norwegian


Norwegian vs Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union  
Norway  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Gambia  
Norway  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe, South America  

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden  
Nynorsk  

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language  
Norwegian Language Council  

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish  
Swedish and Danish Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27  
9
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
9  
6

How Many Consonants
18  
8
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Tere  
hallo  

Thank You
aitäh  
takk  

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb  
hvordan har du det?  

Good Night
Head ööd  
god natt  

Good Evening
Tere õhtust  
god kveld  

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast  
god ettermiddag  

Good Morning
Tere hommikust  
god morgen  

Please
Palun  
Vær så snill  

Sorry
Vabandust  
unnskyld  

Bye
Head aega  
ha det  

I Love You
ma armastan sind  
Jeg Elsker Deg  

Excuse Me
Vabandage  
unnskyld meg  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre  
Jamtlandic  

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia  
Jamtland,Harjedalen  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tartu  
Sognamål  

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia  
Sogn  

Dialect 3
Idamurre  
Hallingmål-Valdris  

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.  
Hallingdal, Valdres  

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
19  
17

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
0.95 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
eesti keel  
Norsk  

Alternative Names
Eesti keel  
Norsk  

French Name
estonien  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  

German Name
Estnisch  
Nynorsk  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  

Ethnicity
Estonians  
Norwegians  

History

Origin
13th century  
c. 1300 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Germanic  

Branch
Finnic  
Northern (Scandinavian)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian  

Standard Forms
Estonian  
Nynorsk, Bokmål  

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language  
Signed Norwegian  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
et  
no  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est  
nor  

ISO 639 2/B
est  
nor  

ISO 639 3
est  
nor  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
esto1258  
norw1258  

Linguasphere
No data available  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Fusional  

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Estonian and Norwegian Language History

Comparison of Estonian vs Norwegian language history gives us differences between origin of Estonian and Norwegian language. History of Estonian language states that this language originated in 13th century 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 Estonian and Norwegian Language History.

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

Estonian vs Norwegian Difficulty

The Estonian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian 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 Estonian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.

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