Countries
Norway
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Norway
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
bitte
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
ha det
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Norsk
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
6th Century AD
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic