Countries
Norway
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2931
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2026
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
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
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
takk
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
god natt
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
god morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Vær så snill
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
unnskyld
жал (žal)
Bye
ha det
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Debar
Where They Speak
Sogn
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1928
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
macédonien
German Name
Nynorsk
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Macedonians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Macedonian
Language Position
1845
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mac
ISO 639 3
nor
mkd
ISO 639 6
nor
mkd
Glottocode
norw1258
mace1250
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic