Countries
Norway
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Norway
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
takk
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
ha det
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Greece
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Modern Greek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic