Finnish and Norwegian Speaking countries

Finnish and Norwegian as Minority Language

In Finnish and Norwegian speaking countries you will get the countries which have Finnish and Norwegian as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Finnish and Norwegian dialects, then you can go to Finnish vs Norwegian Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Finnish and Norwegian Regulators

Finnish and Norwegian speaking countries provide you Finnish and Norwegian regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Institute for the Languages of Finland regulates Finnish language.Norwegian is regulated by Norwegian Language Council. Also get to learn, Finnish and Norwegian Language History.

Finnish and Norwegian Continents

Thinking about Finnish and Norwegian continents in which Finnish and Norwegian speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Finnish and Norwegian. Most of the Finnish speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. While Norwegian speaking countries lie in Europe, South America. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Finnish and Norwegian languages:

Finnish Interesting Facts:

• Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
• In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Norwegian 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.

The Finnish language was derived from Not Available and is similar to Estonian and Livonian Languages whereas Finnish language is similar to Swedish and Danish Languages and derived from Not Available.