Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Norway
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Nynorsk
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
hallo
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
takk
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
god natt
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
god morgen
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Vær så snill
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
unnskyld
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Jeju
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
South Korea
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Sognamål
Where They Speak
South Korea
Sogn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Norsk
French Name
coréen
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Koreanisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Koreans
Norwegians
Origin
Before 1st century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kore1280
norw1258
Linguasphere
45-AAA
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional
Korean 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 Korean and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Norwegian language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Korean vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean 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 Korean and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.