Countries
Norway
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Wales
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
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Welsh Language Commissioner
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.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
English Language
Derived From
-
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Helô
Thank You
takk
Diolch
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
god natt
Nos da
Good Evening
god kveld
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
P'nawn da
Good Morning
god morgen
Bore da
Please
Vær så snill
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
unnskyld
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
ha det
Hwyl
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Argentina
How Many People Speak
30,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
Sogn
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Powys
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
198
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million7.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Norsk
Cymraeg
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
gallois
German Name
Nynorsk
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Welsh people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Celtic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Welsh
Language Position
1831
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
cym
ISO 639 2/B
nor
wel
ISO 639 3
nor
cym
ISO 639 6
nor
cym
Glottocode
norw1258
wels1247
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional