Countries
Norway
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
National Language
Norway
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
hallo
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
takk
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
god natt
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
god kveld
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
god morgen
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
Vær så snill
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
unnskyld
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Jeju
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
South Korea
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Sogn
South Korea
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
China, North Korea
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
coréen
German Name
Nynorsk
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Koreans
Origin
c. 1300 AD
Before 1st century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
kore1280
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
45-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative
Norwegian and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Korean language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Korean Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.