Countries
Norway
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
National Language
Norway
Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
Not Available
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
hur mår du
Good Night
god natt
godnatt
Good Evening
god kveld
god kväll
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
god morgen
god morgon
Please
Vær så snill
vänligen
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Dialects
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gabon
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Dialects
Where They Speak
Sogn
Georgia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Dialects
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
France
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
Svenska
Alternative Names
Norsk
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
suédois
German Name
Nynorsk
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
c. 1300 AD
13th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Swedish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
swed1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available
Norwegian and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Swedish language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Swedish word for "Thank You" is tacka dig. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Swedish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Swedish Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Swedish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Swedish 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 Swedish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Swedish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Swedish time required is 24 weeks.