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Countries

Countries

Norway

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Norway

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe, South America

Minority Language

Nynorsk

Regulated By

Norwegian 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.

Similar To

Swedish and Danish Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Thank You

takk

How Are You?

hvordan har du det?

Good Night

god natt

Good Evening

god kveld

Good Afternoon

god ettermiddag

Good Morning

god morgen

Please

Vær så snill

Sorry

unnskyld

Bye

ha det

I Love You

Jeg Elsker Deg

Excuse Me

unnskyld meg

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jamtlandic

Where They Speak

Jamtland,Harjedalen

How Many People Speak

30,000.00
Rank: 83 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sognamål

Where They Speak

Sogn

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00
Rank: 47 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hallingmål-Valdris

Where They Speak

Hallingdal, Valdres

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00
Rank: 38 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

19
Rank: 17 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.00 million
Rank: 73 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %
Rank: 58 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 67 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Norsk

Alternative Names

Norsk

French Name

norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien

German Name

Nynorsk

Pronunciation

[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)

Ethnicity

Norwegians

History

Origin

c. 1300 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian

Standard Forms

Nynorsk, Bokmål

Language Position

18
Rank: 16 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Norwegian

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

no

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nor

ISO 639 2/B

nor

ISO 639 3

nor

ISO 639 6

nor

Glottocode

norw1258

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Norwegian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Norwegian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Norwegian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Norwegian. Norwegian phonology gives Norwegian vowels and Norwegian consonants. There are 9 vowels and 20 consonants in Norwegian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Norwegian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Norwegian language is given in detail in this section.

All Norwegian countries

Want to explore all Norwegian countries? About Norwegian language serves you with all Norwegian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Norwegian as official language are called as Norwegian countries.

  • Countries that use Norwegian as their National Language are: Norway.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Norwegian as second language are: Norwegian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Norwegian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Norwegian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Norwegian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Norwegian language.Learn Norwegian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: hallo
  • Thank you: takk
  • Good Morning: god morgen
  • Good Evening: god kveld
  • Good Afternoon: god ettermiddag

All Norwegian Language Codes

Get to know all Norwegian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Norwegian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.