Countries
Norway
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
takk
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
god natt
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
god kveld
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
god morgen
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Vær så snill
कृपया
Sorry
unnskyld
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ha det
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Doteli
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Sogn
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1912
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
népalais
German Name
Nynorsk
Nepali
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1300 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Nepali
Language Position
1859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
no
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
nep
ISO 639 2/B
nor
nep
ISO 639 3
nor
npi
ISO 639 6
nor
nep
Glottocode
norw1258
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative