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Norwegian and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Norway  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
9  
6

How Many Consonants
9  
1
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Jamtlandic  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Jamtland,Harjedalen  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Sognamål  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Sogn  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Hallingmål-Valdris  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Hallingdal, Valdres  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
19  
17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
5.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
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  

History

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
9  
9
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Norwegian  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

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  

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All German and Norwegian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Norwegian dialects. Various dialects of German and Norwegian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Norwegian Dialects are spoken in different Norwegian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Norwegian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic , Sognamål. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Norwegian Speaking population

German and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Norwegian on German vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Norwegian Language Codes

German and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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