About Norwegian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Norwegian is a North German language that is the official language in Norway. The dialect continuum of this language is similar to that of Swedish and Danish. It features local as well as regional varieties that are easy to distinguish. The native speakers are 5.32 million. This language is written in many standard forms but Nynorsk is the official one. Norwegian belongs to Indo-European and German language families. The retroflex consonants feature only in the Eastern dialect. Even the dialect of Northwestern Norwegian is quite similar to Spanish. The native speakers have a pitch accent that has two distinctive patterns just like Swedish. All the two-syllable words have identical pronunciations. As Norwegian doesn’t have accent marks it is pronounced with a simple tone.
About Danish Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Danish is pronounced as ˈtænˀsk, dansk sprog ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ. It is a North Germanic language and is spoken by six million people. It is the official language of Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands. It is the language of minorities in the Southern Schleswig in northern Germany. It is also spoken in Norway, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Due to immigration, the language became popular in urban areas. About 15–20% of the population of Greenland are Danish speakers. Danish is a descendant of Old Norse and is a common language of the Germanic people who lived in Scandinavia in the Viking Era. Danish derives from the East Norse dialect group and is a Middle Norwegian language. Spoken Danish is different from Norwegian and Swedish.
