Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
91
0
46
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National Language
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
- 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
Serbain and Bosnian
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2520
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bok
hallo
Thank You
hvala
takk
How Are You?
kako si
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
laku noć
god natt
Good Evening
dobra večer
god kveld
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
dobro jutro
god morgen
Please
molim
Vær så snill
Sorry
Oprostite
unnskyld
Bye
Doviđenja
ha det
I Love You
Volim te
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Croatia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
660,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Chakavian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7919
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
89.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.60 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
hrvatski
Norsk
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Norsk
French Name
croate
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kroatisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Croats
Norwegians
Origin
9th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2318
1
120
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Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hr
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
nor
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
nor
ISO 639 3
hrv
nor
ISO 639 6
hrv
nor
Glottocode
croa1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
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
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional