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
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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)
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 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
norw1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
German 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 German and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Norwegian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common German Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Norwegian Difficulty
The German vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.