Countries
Norway
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2947
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
pranam
Thank You
takk
dhanyabad
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
god natt
Śubharātri
Good Evening
god kveld
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
god morgen
Suprabhaat
Please
Vær så snill
kripaya
Sorry
unnskyld
maf karai
Bye
ha det
Alavidā
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
kripaya
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Sogn
North India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Khortha
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1915
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
maithili
German Name
Nynorsk
Maithili
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Maithil
Origin
c. 1300 AD
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Maithili
Language Position
1840
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mai
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mai
ISO 639 3
nor
mai
ISO 639 6
nor
mai
Glottocode
norw1258
mait1250
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
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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