Countries
Norway
  
European Union, Poland
  
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 in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
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
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.