Countries
Norway
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Sveiki
Thank You
takk
Ačiū
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
god natt
Labanakt
Good Evening
god kveld
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Laba diena
Good Morning
god morgen
Labas rytas
Please
Vær så snill
Prašom
Sorry
unnskyld
atsiprašau
Bye
ha det
Ate
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Curonian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1910
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Norsk
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
lituanien
German Name
Nynorsk
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Lithuanians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Lithuanian
Language Position
1844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
lit
ISO 639 2/B
nor
lit
ISO 639 3
nor
lit
ISO 639 6
nor
lit
Glottocode
norw1258
lith1251
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic