Countries
Norway
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Norway
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
takk
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
ha det
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Norsk
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Ukrainian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.