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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Norway

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Norway

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe, South America

1.6 Minority Language

Nynorsk

1.7 Regulated By

Norwegian Language Council

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.

1.9 Similar To

Swedish and Danish Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

hallo

3.2 Thank You

takk

3.3 How Are You?

hvordan har du det?

3.4 Good Night

god natt

3.5 Good Evening

god kveld

3.6 Good Afternoon

god ettermiddag

3.7 Good Morning

god morgen

3.8 Please

Vær så snill

3.9 Sorry

unnskyld

3.10 Bye

ha det

3.11 I Love You

Jeg Elsker Deg

3.12 Excuse Me

unnskyld meg

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Jamtlandic

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Jamtland,Harjedalen

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

30,000.00
Rank: 46 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Sognamål

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Sogn

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Hallingmål-Valdris

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Hallingdal, Valdres

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

19
Rank: 17 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

5.00 million
Rank: 73 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Norsk

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Norsk

5.3.4 French Name

norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien

5.3.5 German Name

Nynorsk

5.4 Pronunciation

[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)

5.5 Ethnicity

Norwegians

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1300 AD

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Germanic

6.2.2 Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Nynorsk, Bokmål

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Norwegian

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

no

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

nor

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

nor

7.3 ISO 639 3

nor

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

norw1258

7.6 Linguasphere

52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Origin of Norwegian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Norwegian language is one of the Easiest Languages to Learn. The origin of Norwegian language states that it was put to use in c. 1300 AD. The history of Norwegian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Norwegian Language History.The evolution of Norwegian language began with early forms such as Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian. Nynorsk, Bokmål is the standard form of Norwegian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Norwegian Language.

Norwegian population

Norwegian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Norwegian language. Norwegian language is spoken by 5.00 million people in the world. Most of the Norwegian population lies in the Norwegian Speaking Countries. Norwegian language is spoken as first language by 5.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Norwegian as second language. Get to know Norwegian speaking population in detail.

Norwegian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Norwegian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Norwegian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Norwegian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Norwegian language

Check out all the information about Norwegian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Norwegian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Norwegian Speaking Countries, Norwegian speaking continents and Norwegian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Norwegian countries knowing common Norwegian Greetings will help you in communicating with Norwegian people.