Countries
Norway
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Zdravo
Thank You
takk
Hvala
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Kako si?
Good Night
god natt
Laku noc
Good Evening
god kveld
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Dobar dan
Good Morning
god morgen
Dobro jutro
Please
Vær så snill
molim vas
Sorry
unnskyld
Oprostite
Bye
ha det
Zbogom
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Volim te
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Croatia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Croatia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
196
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Norsk
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
bosniaque
German Name
Nynorsk
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Bosniaks
Origin
c. 1300 AD
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Bosnian
Language Position
1824
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
bos
ISO 639 2/B
nor
bos
ISO 639 3
nor
bos
ISO 639 6
nor
boss
Glottocode
norw1258
bosn1245
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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