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Russian and Norwegian


Countries

Countries
Norway  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
4  
11

National Language
Norway  
Russia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Europe, South America  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Nynorsk  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

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.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
-  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
10  
7

How Many Consonants
20  
10
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
takk  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
hvordan har du det?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
god natt  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
god kveld  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
god morgen  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
Vær så snill  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
unnskyld  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
ha det  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
unnskyld meg  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Sognamål  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Sogn  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
99+
154,000,000.00  
2

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
38
154,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
19  
17
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
Norsk  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Norsk  
Russki  

French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien  
russe  

German Name
Nynorsk  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
Norwegians  
Russians  

History

Origin
c. 1300 AD  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Slavic  

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
18  
16
7  
7

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
no  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nor  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
nor  
rus  

ISO 639 3
nor  
rus  

ISO 639 6
nor  
rus  

Glottocode
norw1258  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg  
53-AAA-ea  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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All Norwegian and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Norwegian and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Norwegian and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Norwegian are spoken in different Norwegian Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Norwegian vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic, Sognamål. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Norwegian and Russian Speaking population

Norwegian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Russian on Norwegian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Norwegian and Russian Language Codes

Norwegian and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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