Countries
Norway
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
takk
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
god natt
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
god morgen
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Vær så snill
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
unnskyld
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
ha det
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
30,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Olonets
Where They Speak
Sogn
Olonets
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1913
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Русский
Alternative Names
Norsk
Russki
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
russe
German Name
Nynorsk
Russisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Russians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Russian
Language Position
187
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
rus
ISO 639 2/B
nor
rus
ISO 639 3
nor
rus
ISO 639 6
nor
rus
Glottocode
norw1258
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic