Countries
Belarus, Poland
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Norway
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Nynorsk
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- 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 Ukrainian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3920
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
hallo
Thank You
Dziakuj
takk
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Dabranač
god natt
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
god kveld
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
god morgen
Please
Kali laska
Vær så snill
Sorry
Vybačajcie
unnskyld
Bye
da pabačennia
ha det
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Sogn
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Norsk
French Name
biélorusse
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Weißrussisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Norwegians
Origin
18th century
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
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
7918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
be
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
nor
ISO 639 2/B
bel
nor
ISO 639 3
bel
nor
ISO 639 6
bel
nor
Glottocode
bela1254
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional