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Norwegian vs Polish


Polish vs Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway  
European Union, Poland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Norway  
Poland  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Speaking Continents
Europe, South America  
Europe  

Minority Language
Nynorsk  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  

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.
  
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  

Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
9  
6

How Many Consonants
20  
10
23  
13

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
cześć  

Thank You
takk  
dziękuję  

How Are You?
hvordan har du det?  
Jak się masz?  

Good Night
god natt  
dobranoc  

Good Evening
god kveld  
dobry wieczór  

Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag  
dzień dobry  

Good Morning
god morgen  
Dzień dobry  

Please
Vær så snill  
proszę  

Sorry
unnskyld  
Przepraszam  

Bye
ha det  
do widzenia  

I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg  
kocham Cię  

Excuse Me
unnskyld meg  
przepraszam  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic  
Kashubian  

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
108,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Sognamål  
Masovian  

Where They Speak
Sogn  
Poland  

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris  
Silesian  

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres  
Czech Republic, Poland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
510,000.00  
22

Total No. Of Dialects
19  
17
34  
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million  
99+
40.00 million  
31

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.61 %  
25

Native Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
40.00 million  
24

Native Name
Norsk  
Polski  

Alternative Names
Norsk  
Polnisch, Polski  

French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  
polonais  

German Name
Nynorsk  
Polnisch  

Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  
[ˈpɔlski]  

Ethnicity
Norwegians  
Poles  

History

Origin
c. 1300 AD  
1270  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Slavic  

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian  
Old Polish and Middle Polish  

Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål  
Polish  

Language Position
Not Available  
24  
20

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
no  
pl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nor  
pol  

ISO 639 2/B
nor  
pol  

ISO 639 3
nor  
pol  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
pols  

Glottocode
norw1258  
poli1260  

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  
53-AAA-cc  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Norwegian and Polish Language History

Comparison of Norwegian vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of Norwegian and Polish language. History of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD whereas history of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Norwegian and Polish Language History.

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Norwegian and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Polish language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Norwegian vs Polish Difficulty

The Norwegian vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.

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