Countries
Norway
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Norway
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Moi
  
Thank You
takk
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
haluta
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
ha det
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Norsk
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Suomi
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
finn1318
  
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
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Finnish language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.