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Norwegian and Finnish History


Finnish and Norwegian Language History


History

Origin
c. 1300 AD   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

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Early forms of Norwegian and Finnish

The Early forms of Norwegian and Finnish explains the evolution of Norwegian and Finnish languages which is under Norwegian and Finnish history. The early forms give us the early stages of the language. By studying Norwegian and Finnish history we will understand how the Norwegian and Finnish languages were evolved and modified according to time.

  • Early forms of Norwegian: Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian.
  • Early forms of Finnish: Proto-Finnic language.
  • Standard forms of Norwegian: Nynorsk, Bokmål.
  • Standard forms of Finnish: standard Finnish.
  • Signed forms of Norwegian: Signed Norwegian
  • Signed forms of Finnish: Signed Norwegian

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Norwegian and Finnish Language Family

In Norwegian and Finnish history, you will get to know about Norwegian and Finnish language family. Go through all languages which belong to Afro-Asiatic Languages and Niger-Congo Languages and explore more about them. A language family is defined as group of languages that are derived from common ancestors. Norwegian is a part of Indo-European Family while Finnish is a part of Uralic Family. The subgroup and branch of Norwegian is Germanic and Northern (Scandinavian) resp. The subgroup and branch of Finnish is Finno-Ugric and Finnic resp. Language families are subdivided into smaller units. Scripts used by these languages also depend upon their family. Check out the scripts used in Norwegian and Finnish language on Norwegian vs Finnish alphabets. You can also find which is the most widely spoken language in the world on Most Spoken Languages.

Norwegian vs Finnish Language Rank

It’s really interesting to find out Norwegian vs Finnish language rank. Norwegian and Finnish history gives you Norwegian and Finnish language rank. The Norwegian language rank is not available. And Finnish language rank is not available. The language which is at the higher position has maximum number of native speakers. If you want to know the number of native speakers then go to Norwegian vs Finnish.

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