Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Norway
  
National Language
France
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
god morgen
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
désolé
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
au revoir
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Norsk
  
French Name
français
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
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
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
French 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 French and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Norwegian language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common French Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Norwegian Difficulty
The French vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.