Indo-European · ISO 639-3 nor · no
Norwegian Language norsk
Norwegian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 5.5 million people in 1 country. It is an official language of Norway. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Norwegian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Norwegian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Norwegian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Norwegian language
Norwegian (norsk) is spoken by about 5.5 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Germanic group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Norwegian spoken?
Norwegian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Norway (5.5 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Norway — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Norwegian is an official language in 1 country: Norway.
Writing system and status
Norwegian is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are English, German, Nigerian Pidgin, Dutch, Bavarian, Swedish and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 no, ISO 639-3 nor.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.