Countries
Ukraine
  
Norway
  
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 in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
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
  
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.