Countries
Norway
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Hawaii
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2928
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
您好
Thank You
takk
谢谢
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
你好吗？
Good Night
god natt
晚安
Good Evening
god kveld
晚上好
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
下午好
Good Morning
god morgen
早上好
Please
Vær så snill
请
Sorry
unnskyld
遗憾
Bye
ha det
再见
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
我爱你
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
原谅我
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
30,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Sogn
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Norsk
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Norsk
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
cantonais
German Name
Nynorsk
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1300 AD
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
181
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
no
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
yue
ISO 639 2/B
nor
yue
ISO 639 3
nor
No data available
ISO 639 6
nor
yue
Glottocode
norw1258
cant1236
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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