Countries
Norway
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2925
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Halo
Thank You
takk
Hvala
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Kako se imate?
Good Night
god natt
Lahko noč
Good Evening
god kveld
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Dober dan
Good Morning
god morgen
Dobro jutro
Please
Vær så snill
Prosim
Sorry
unnskyld
Oprostite
Bye
ha det
Nasvidenje
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Resian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Italy
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Styrian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1948
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Norsk
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
slovène
German Name
Nynorsk
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Slovenes
Origin
c. 1300 AD
972-1093
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
Slovene
Language Position
1828
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
slv
ISO 639 2/B
nor
slv
ISO 639 3
nor
slv
ISO 639 6
nor
slv
Glottocode
norw1258
slov1268
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional