Countries
Countries
Norway
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Norway
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Poland
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Not Available
Aramaic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
29
11
22
4
Phonology
How Many Vowels
9
6
0
How Many Consonants
20
10
22
12
Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
4
3
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
6
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
hallo
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
takk
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
god natt
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
god kveld
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
god morgen
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Vær så snill
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
unnskyld
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
ha det
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
בבקשה!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Israel
How Many People Speak
30,000.00
99+
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Sogn
Israel, Palestine
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Israel
Total No. Of Dialects
19
17
7
7
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
99+
9.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Speakers
5.00 million
99+
4.40 million
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
5.60 million
27
Native Name
Norsk
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
hébreu
German Name
Nynorsk
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Not Available
History
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
Not Available
23
19
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
no
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
heb
ISO 639 2/B
nor
heb
ISO 639 3
nor
heb
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
hebr1246
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
