Countries
Norway
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Norway
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
takk
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
ha det
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
serbe
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Serbs
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
11th 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 Serbian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available