Countries
Norway
  
Belarus, Poland
  
National Language
Norway
  
Belarus, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Poland
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Russian and Ukrainian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Belarusian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
dobry dzień
  
Thank You
takk
  
Dziakuj
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Jak vy ?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Dabranač
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Dobry viečar
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
dobry dzień
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Dobraj ranicy
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Kali laska
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Vybačajcie
  
Bye
ha det
  
da pabačennia
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
JA liubliu ciabie
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Vybačajcie
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
North-Eastern Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
North-East Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
South-Western Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
South-West Belarus
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Middle Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Middle Belarus
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
9.63 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
7.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.89 million
  
26
Native Name
Norsk
  
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
biélorusse
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Weißrussisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Belarusians
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
18th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Belarusian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
be
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
bel
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
bel
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
bel
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
bela1254
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Belarusian 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 Belarusian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Belarusian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Belarusian word for "Thank You" is Dziakuj. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Belarusian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Belarusian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Belarusian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Belarusian 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 Belarusian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Belarusian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Belarusian time required is Not Available.