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Countries

Countries
Norway

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 83

Dialect 2
Sognamål

Where They Speak
Sogn

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00 47

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00 38

Total No. Of Dialects
19 17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million 73

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
5.00 million 67

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

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 16

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

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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.

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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.

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