Countries
Norway
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Olonets
Where They Speak
Sogn
Olonets
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
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 Not Available 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.