Countries
Countries
Norway
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Nynorsk
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Hallo
Thank You
takk
dankjewel
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
god natt
goede Nacht
Good Evening
god kveld
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
goedemiddag
Good Morning
god morgen
goedemorgen
Please
Vær så snill
alsjeblieft
Sorry
unnskyld
sorry
Bye
ha det
vaarwel
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
pardon
Dialects
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gronings
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
30,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Sogn
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
197
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Norsk
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Nynorsk
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Dutch people
History
Origin
c. 1300 AD
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Dutch
Language Position
1848
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
no
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
nld
ISO 639 2/B
nor
dut
ISO 639 3
nor
nld
ISO 639 6
nor
nld
Glottocode
norw1258
mode1257
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic