Countries
Norway
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Norway
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
pranam
  
Thank You
takk
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
maf karai
  
Bye
ha det
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
North India
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
32.00 million
  
35
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Norsk
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
maithili
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Maithil
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Maithili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Maithili Speaking population
Norwegian and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Maithili on Norwegian vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Maithili Language Codes
Norwegian and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.