Countries
Norway
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2962
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
92
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2060
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
takk
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
god natt
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
god kveld
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
god morgen
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Vær så snill
амритана
Sorry
unnskyld
Амарахь
Bye
ha det
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
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Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
30,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Sogn
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Sadz
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
abkhaze
German Name
Nynorsk
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Abkhaz people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Abkhaz
Language Position
1828
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
abk
ISO 639 2/B
nor
abk
ISO 639 3
nor
abk
ISO 639 6
nor
abks
Glottocode
norw1258
abkh1244
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative