1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Norway
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
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
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Not Available
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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei 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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
Nongale haugatl
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Eina nangbu nungsi
3.12 Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Not Available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Burma, Laos
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.005,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA273,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Meithei proper
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,250,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million1.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million1.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Norsk
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
Meithei
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Norwegians
Meithei people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Meithei
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
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
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7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology