Countries
Norway
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
913
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
takk
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
god natt
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
god kveld
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
god morgen
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Vær så snill
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
unnskyld
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
ha det
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
30,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
198
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
mongol
German Name
Nynorsk
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Mongols
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Germanic
Mongolian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
1826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
no
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mon
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mon
ISO 639 3
nor
mon
ISO 639 6
nor
mon
Glottocode
norw1258
mong1331
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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