Countries
Norway
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Norway
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Czech Republic
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
takk
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
ha det
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Norsk
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating