Countries
Norway
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2946
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2038
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
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
Ahoj
Thank You
takk
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
god natt
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
god kveld
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
god morgen
Dobré ráno
Please
Vær så snill
Prosím
Sorry
unnskyld
Pardón!
Bye
ha det
Dovidenia
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
30,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Sogn
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
194
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Norsk
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
slovaque
German Name
Nynorsk
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Slovaks
Origin
c. 1300 AD
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Slovak
Language Position
1827
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
slk
ISO 639 2/B
nor
slo
ISO 639 3
nor
slk
ISO 639 6
nor
slk
Glottocode
norw1258
slov1269
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic