Countries
Norway
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Norway
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
takk
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
ha det
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
6th Century
  
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
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Slovak language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Slovak Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Slovak 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 Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.