Countries
Norway
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Norway
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
takk
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
sorry
  
Bye
ha det
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Netherlands
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Norsk
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Dutch Speaking population
Norwegian and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Norwegian and Dutch on Norwegian vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Dutch Language Codes
Norwegian and Dutch language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Dutch Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.