Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Norway
National Language
Russia
Norway
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
takk
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
god natt
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
god morgen
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
unnskyld
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ha det
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Olonets
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Olonets
Sogn
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Norsk
Alternative Names
Russki
Norsk
French Name
russe
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Russisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Russians
Norwegians
Origin
1000 AD
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
Eastern
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Russian and Norwegian 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 Russian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Norwegian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Russian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Russian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.