Countries
Norway
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
New Zealand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Tahitian Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2920
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2010
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Hello
Thank You
takk
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
god natt
Night pai
Good Evening
god kveld
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
god morgen
Morning pai
Please
Vær så snill
Tēnā
Sorry
unnskyld
Aroha mai
Bye
ha det
poroporoaki
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
30,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Sogn
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million0.18 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million0.18 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Norsk
New Zealand Maori
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
maori
German Name
Nynorsk
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Māori people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1814
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Polynesian
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
Maori
Language Position
1826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Maori Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mri
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mao
ISO 639 3
nor
mri
ISO 639 6
nor
mri
Glottocode
norw1258
maor1246
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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