Countries
Norway
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
National Language
Norway
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Nynorsk
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
god natt
goede Nacht
Good Evening
god kveld
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
goedemiddag
Good Morning
god morgen
goedemorgen
Please
Vær så snill
alsjeblieft
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
pardon
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gronings
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Netherlands
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Sogn
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Norsk
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Nynorsk
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Dutch people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Dutch
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
mode1257
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic
Norwegian and Dutch Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Norwegian and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Dutch language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Dutch Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Dutch Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Norwegian and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.