1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Norway
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Norwegian Language Council
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
unnskyld meg
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Texas
Hallingdal, Valdres
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million5.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
allemand
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
c. 1300 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Nynorsk, Bokmål
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Norwegian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
norw1258
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional