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Norwegian and Finnish


Finnish and Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Norway  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Europe, South America  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Nynorsk  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

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.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
8  
5

How Many Consonants
20  
10
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Moi  

Thank You
takk  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
hvordan har du det?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
god natt  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
god kveld  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
god morgen  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
Vær så snill  
haluta  

Sorry
unnskyld  
Anteeksi  

Bye
ha det  
Heippa  

I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
unnskyld meg  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Sognamål  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Sogn  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
19  
17
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
Norsk  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Norsk  
Suomi  

French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  
finnois  

German Name
Nynorsk  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Norwegians  
ethnic Finns  

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  

Code

ISO 639 1
no  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nor  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
nor  
fin  

ISO 639 3
nor  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
norw1258  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Norwegian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Norwegian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Norwegian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Norwegian are spoken in different Norwegian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Norwegian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic, Sognamål. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Norwegian and Finnish Speaking population

Norwegian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. 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 Finnish on Norwegian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Norwegian and Finnish Language Codes

Norwegian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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