Norwegian and Finnish
Countries
Norway
European Union, Finland
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 in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Finland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sogn
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Finnic
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
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
finn1318
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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.
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.