ISO 639-3 · nornor
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Norwegian
norsk
Norwegian is a macrolanguage of the North Germanic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Norway. Wikidata counts about 5.2 m speakers (2015). Wikidata describes it as “North Germanic language spoken in Norway”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nor- ISO 639-1
no- Glottocode
norw1258- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 59.91, 10.74
- Wikipedia
- 202 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Norwegian · norsk |
|---|---|
| Also called | Norwegian language |
| All speakers | 5,200,000 (2015) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Norway |
| Grammatical cases | 4 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 4 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Norwegian
The branches above Norwegian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Norway
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