Countries
Norway
  
Bhutan
  
National Language
Norway
  
Bhutan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
India
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Dzongkha Development Commission
  
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.
  
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Sikkimese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tibetan Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dzongkha-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kuzoozangpo La
  
Thank You
takk
  
Kaadinchhey La
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
lek shom ay zim
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Not Available
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Tsip maza
  
Bye
ha det
  
Log Jay Gay
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Nga cheu lu ga
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Tsip maza
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Laya
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Bhutan
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Lunana
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Bhutan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Adap
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Bhutan
  
Total No. Of Dialects
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
0.64 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
0.17 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.47 million
  
37
Native Name
Norsk
  
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
dzongkha
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Dzongkha
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Ngalop people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Dzongkha
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
dz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
dzo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
nucl1307
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Dzongkha 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 Dzongkha greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Dzongkha language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Dzongkha word for "Thank You" is Kaadinchhey La. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Dzongkha Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Dzongkha Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Dzongkha difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Dzongkha 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 Dzongkha are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Dzongkha, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Dzongkha time required is Not Available.