Countries
Norway
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Norway
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
god natt
gute Nacht
Good Evening
god kveld
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
guten Tag
Good Morning
god morgen
guten Morgen
Please
Vær så snill
bitte
Sorry
unnskyld
Verzeihung
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Sogn
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Texas German
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Norsk
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
allemand
German Name
Nynorsk
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Germans
Origin
c. 1300 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed German
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
norw1258
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Norwegian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and German language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs German Difficulty
The Norwegian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.