Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Norway
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Norway
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Come stai?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
buonanotte
god natt
Good Evening
buonasera
god kveld
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
buongiorno
god morgen
Please
Per Favore
Vær så snill
I Love You
Ti amo
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Scusami
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Romanesco
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Lazio
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Central Italian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Sogn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Tuscan
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Italiano
Norsk
Alternative Names
Italiano
Norsk
French Name
italien
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Italienisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Italians
Norwegians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Italian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
itas
Not Available
Glottocode
ital1282
norw1258
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
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
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Italian and Norwegian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Italian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Norwegian language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Italian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Italian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian Alphabets and Norwegian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Italian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.