1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Norway
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Norway
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Meänkieli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Norsk
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
finnois
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈsuomi]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Finnic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic