Countries
Norway
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
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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Hello
hallo
Ħello
Thank You
takk
Grazzi
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Kif int?
Good Night
god natt
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
god kveld
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
god morgen
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Vær så snill
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
unnskyld
Skużani!
Bye
ha det
Ċaw
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Qormi
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Malta
How Many People Speak
30,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Sogn
Malta
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not Present
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
192
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million0.52 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Malti
Alternative Names
Norsk
Malti
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
maltais
German Name
Nynorsk
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Maltese
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Maltese
Language Position
1825
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mlt
ISO 639 3
nor
mlt
ISO 639 6
nor
mlt
Glottocode
norw1258
malt1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic