Countries
Norway
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Norway
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
takk
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
désolé
  
Bye
ha det
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Norsk
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Français
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
français
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic