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Ukrainian vs Norwegian


Norwegian vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
Norway  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Ukraine  
Norway  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe, South America  

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia  
Nynorsk  

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language  
Norwegian Language Council  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages  
Swedish and Danish Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
9  
6

How Many Consonants
22  
12
20  
10

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  
hallo  

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  
takk  

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  
hvordan har du det?  

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  
god natt  

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  
god kveld  

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  
god ettermiddag  

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  
god morgen  

Please
будь ласк  
Vær så snill  

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)  
unnskyld  

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)  
ha det  

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  
Jeg Elsker Deg  

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  
unnskyld meg  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian  
Jamtlandic  

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  
Jamtland,Harjedalen  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Volynian  
Sognamål  

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn  
Sogn  

Dialect 3
Steppe  
Hallingmål-Valdris  

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  
Hallingdal, Valdres  

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
19  
17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
5.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
30
Not Available  

Native Speakers
39.00 million  
25
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  
Norsk  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Norsk  

French Name
ukrainien  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  

German Name
Ukrainisch  
Nynorsk  

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  

Ethnicity
Ukrainians  
Norwegians  

History

Origin
1561  
c. 1300 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Germanic  

Branch
Eastern  
Northern (Scandinavian)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian  

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian  
Nynorsk, Bokmål  

Language Position
26  
22
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Signed Norwegian  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
uk  
no  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr  
nor  

ISO 639 2/B
ukr  
nor  

ISO 639 3
ukr  
nor  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
ukra1253  
norw1258  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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Ukrainian and Norwegian Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Norwegian language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Norwegian language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Norwegian language states that this language originated in c. 1300 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Ukrainian and Norwegian Language History.

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Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Norwegian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Ukrainian vs Norwegian Difficulty

The Ukrainian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.

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