Countries
Norway
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Norway
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bhojpuri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
takk
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
ha det
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Native Name
Norsk
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Bhojpuri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available