Countries
Norway
  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
National Language
Norway
  
Spain
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
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.
  
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
hola
  
Thank You
takk
  
Gracias
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Cómo estás?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Buenas Noches
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Bonne soirée
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Buenas Tardes
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Buenos Días
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
triste
  
Bye
ha det
  
adiós
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Te Quiero
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Discúlpeme
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Mexican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Mexico
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Cuban Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Cuba
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Puerto Rico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
489.00 million
  
3
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
410.00 million
  
2
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
89.50 million
  
9
Native Name
Norsk
  
Español
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
espagnol; castillan
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Spanisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
210 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
es
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
spa
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
spa
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
spa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
stan1288
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
51-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic