Countries
Japan
  
Norway
  
National Language
Japan
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
- 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
Korean Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
takk
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
god morgen
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
ha det
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
日本語
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Norsk
  
French Name
japonais
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1185
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
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
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Japanese 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 Japanese and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Norwegian language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Japanese vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.