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Norwegian vs Russian


Russian vs Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
4   
11

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

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

Alphabets
29   
11
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
10   
7

How Many Consonants
20   
10
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

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

Dialect 2
Sognamål   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Sogn   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres   
Novgorod   

Total No. Of Dialects
19   
17
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million   
99+
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
Not Available   
2.33 %   
9

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   

History

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   
7   
7

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Norwegian and Russian Language History

Comparison of Norwegian vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Norwegian and Russian language. History of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Russian Language History.

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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.

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