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 Kazakh Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kazakh is also known as Qazaq. It is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch and is spoken in Central Asia. The language is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz, and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan and is a minority language in Xinjiang. Kazakh is also spoken in China and the Bayan-Ölgii Province of Mongolia. It is also spoken by ethnic Kazakhs in the former Soviet Union. The language is also spoken in Germany and Turkey. Just like many Turkic languages, Kazakh employs vowel harmony. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev changed the writing system of the language. The Cyrillic to Latin script has been enforced till the year 2025. The proposed Latin alphabet was revised several times and was introduced in January 2021. The language has many Turkish alphabets, and lacks the letters C. Kazakh has four additional letters that include: Ä, Ñ, Q, and Ū.The language is scheduled to be phased in from 2023 to 2031.
