Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Norway
  
National Language
Germany
  
Norway
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-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
hallo
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
god morgen
  
Please
bitte
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Norsk
  
French Name
allemand
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Western
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional