Countries
Norway
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Norway
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
takk
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
günaydın
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
ha det
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Norsk
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
turc
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Turkish
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic