Countries
Norway
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2025
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
takk
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
god natt
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
god morgen
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Vær så snill
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
unnskyld
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
ha det
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Sogn
Serbia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Montenegrin
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
serbe
German Name
Nynorsk
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Serbs
Origin
c. 1300 AD
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Serbian
Language Position
1844
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
srp
ISO 639 2/B
nor
srp
ISO 639 3
nor
srp
ISO 639 6
nor
srp
Glottocode
norw1258
serb1264
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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