Countries
Norway
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Thank You
takk
Adi Johar
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
god natt
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
god kveld
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
संध्यायान
Good Morning
god morgen
Boge Setak’
Please
Vær så snill
দয়া করে
Sorry
unnskyld
দুঃখিত
Bye
ha det
Hariau
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Mahali
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
India
How Many People Speak
30,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Not present
Where They Speak
Sogn
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not present
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
191
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
santal
German Name
Nynorsk
Santali
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 1300 AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Santali
Language Position
1841
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
sat
ISO 639 2/B
nor
sat
ISO 639 3
nor
sat
ISO 639 6
nor
sat
Glottocode
norw1258
sant1410
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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