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Norwegian Language



Countries

Countries
Norway

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Norway

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Europe, South America

Minority Language
Nynorsk

Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council

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.

Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

Greetings

Hello
hallo

Thank You
takk

How Are You?
hvordan har du det?

Good Night
god natt

Good Evening
god kveld

Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag

Good Morning
god morgen

Please
Vær så snill

Sorry
unnskyld

Bye
ha det

I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg

Excuse Me
unnskyld meg

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jamtlandic

Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen

How Many People Speak
30,000.00 83

Dialect 2
Sognamål

Where They Speak
Sogn

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00 47

Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris

Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00 38

Total No. Of Dialects
19 17

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.00 million 73

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
5.00 million 67

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 51

Native Name
Norsk

Alternative Names
Norsk

French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien

German Name
Nynorsk

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

Ethnicity
Norwegians

History

Origin
c. 1300 AD

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Germanic

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

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

Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål

Language Position
18 16

Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
no

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
nor

ISO 639 2/B
nor

ISO 639 3
nor

ISO 639 6
nor

Glottocode
norw1258

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

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

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Origin of Norwegian language

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Norwegian population

Norwegian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Norwegian language. Norwegian language is spoken by 5.00 million people in the world. Most of the Norwegian population lies in the Norwegian Speaking Countries. Norwegian language is spoken as first language by 5.00 million people and as second language by about 5.00 million people. Get to know Norwegian speaking population in detail.

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Norwegian writing system

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