1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Norway
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Norway
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
The National Institute of the Korean Language
1.8 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
takk
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
god natt
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
god kveld
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
Vær så snill
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
unnskyld
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Hamgyŏng
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Norsk
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
coréen
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1300 AD
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
45-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology