Finnish and Norwegian
Countries
European Union, Finland
Norway
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Norway
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
god natt
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
god morgen
Please
haluta
Vær så snill
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Finland
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Sogn
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Norsk
Alternative Names
Suomi
Norsk
French Name
finnois
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Finnisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Norwegians
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Germanic
Branch
Finnic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional
All Finnish and Norwegian Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Norwegian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Norwegian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Norwegian Dialects are spoken in different Norwegian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Norwegian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic , Sognamål. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Finnish and Norwegian Speaking population
Finnish and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Norwegian on Finnish vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Norwegian Language Codes
Finnish and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.