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Countries

Countries

Norway
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Norway
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe, South America
Europe

Minority Language

Nynorsk
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Norwegian Language Council
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Swedish and Danish Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

209
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
hallo

Thank You

takk
Danke

How Are You?

hvordan har du det?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

god natt
gute Nacht

Good Evening

god kveld
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

god ettermiddag
guten Tag

Good Morning

god morgen
guten Morgen

Please

Vær så snill
bitte

Sorry

unnskyld
Verzeihung

Bye

ha det
Tschüs

I Love You

Jeg Elsker Deg
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

unnskyld meg
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jamtlandic
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Jamtland,Harjedalen
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

30,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sognamål
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Sogn
Germany

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hallingmål-Valdris
Texas German

Where They Speak

Hallingdal, Valdres
Texas

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1928
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Norsk
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Norsk
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
allemand

German Name

Nynorsk
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Norwegians
Germans

History

Origin

c. 1300 AD
6th Century AD

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
No early forms

Standard Forms

Nynorsk, Bokmål
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

189
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Norwegian
Signed German

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

no
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nor
deu

ISO 639 2/B

nor
ger

ISO 639 3

nor
deu

ISO 639 6

nor
deus

Glottocode

norw1258
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Norwegian and German Alphabets

Norwegian and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Norwegian and German. In Norwegian Alphabets there are 29 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Norwegian and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Norwegian and German languages. The Norwegian phonology consist Norwegian vowels and Norwegian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Norwegian greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Norwegian and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Norwegian and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Norwegian and German dialects. Various dialects of Norwegian and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Norwegian are spoken in different Norwegian Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Norwegian vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic, Sognamål. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Norwegian and German Speaking population

Norwegian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and German on Norwegian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Norwegian and German Language Codes

Norwegian and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.