Countries
Norway
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Norway
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
takk
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
ha det
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Norsk
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Russki
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
russe
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Russian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Russian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.