Countries
Norway
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
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
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
bok
Thank You
takk
hvala
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
kako si
Good Night
god natt
laku noć
Good Evening
god kveld
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
dobar dan
Good Morning
god morgen
dobro jutro
Please
Vær så snill
molim
Sorry
unnskyld
Oprostite
Bye
ha det
Doviđenja
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Volim te
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Croatia
How Many People Speak
30,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Croatia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1979
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million5.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Norsk
Hrvatski
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
croate
German Name
Nynorsk
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Croats
Origin
c. 1300 AD
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
1823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
nor
hrv
ISO 639 3
nor
hrv
ISO 639 6
nor
hrv
Glottocode
norw1258
croa1245
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
Fusional, Synthetic