Countries
Norway
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2927
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Kaixo
Thank You
takk
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Zer moduz?
Good Night
god natt
Gabon
Good Evening
god kveld
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
god morgen
Egun on
Please
Vær så snill
Mesedez
Sorry
unnskyld
Barkatu
Bye
ha det
Agur
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
France
How Many People Speak
30,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Souletin
Where They Speak
Sogn
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Spain
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
196
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million7.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Euskara
Alternative Names
Norsk
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
basque
German Name
Nynorsk
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Basque people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 1000
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Basque
Language Position
1830
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
no
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
eus
ISO 639 2/B
nor
baq
ISO 639 3
nor
eus
ISO 639 6
nor
eus
Glottocode
norw1258
basq1248
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative