Countries
Norway
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2927
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
99
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Tere
Thank You
takk
aitäh
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
god natt
Head ööd
Good Evening
god kveld
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Tere päevast
Good Morning
god morgen
Tere hommikust
Please
Vær så snill
Palun
Sorry
unnskyld
Vabandust
Bye
ha det
Head aega
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Tartu
Where They Speak
Sogn
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
198
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Norsk
Eesti keel
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
estonien
German Name
Nynorsk
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Estonians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Estonian
Language Position
1822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
no
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
est
ISO 639 2/B
nor
est
ISO 639 3
nor
est
ISO 639 6
nor
est
Glottocode
norw1258
esto1258
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative