Countries
Norway
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Norway
  
Abkhazia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
takk
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Not Available
  
Bye
ha det
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
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
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Norwegian and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Norwegian and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Abkhaz language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Norwegian and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.