1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Germanic

Norwegian

WALS coordinates: 61° N, 8° E

spoken in Norway

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Norwegian
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Norwegian (Bokmal)
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Average
    Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels High and mid
    Syllable Structure Complex
    Tone Simple tone system
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-oriented: One of the last three
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel or coda consonant
    Rhythm Types Undetermined
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
    The Associative Plural Unique periphrastic associative plural
    Definite Articles Definite affix
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
    Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction
    Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
    Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
    The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
    The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun No dominant order
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
    Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
    Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Interrogative word order
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te