Official Languages

Norwegian (Bokmål) · Norwegian (Nynorsk)

Languages spoken here

Bulgarian (secondary) · Danish (secondary) · Danish (Jutlandic) (secondary) · Dutch (secondary) · Dutch (Brabantian) (secondary) · Estonian (secondary) · Finnish (secondary) · German (secondary) · Gheg Albanian (secondary) · Icelandic (secondary) · Korean (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Lithuanian (secondary) · Moroccan Arabic (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Norwegian (Bokmål) (secondary) · Norwegian (Nynorsk) (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Somali (secondary) · Spanish (secondary) · Swedish (secondary) · Thai (secondary) · Tigre (secondary) · Tigrinya (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary) · Vietnamese (secondary) · Yoruba (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Norway

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Norwegian	4572000	Norwegian	Christianity
Polish	122000	Polish	Christianity
Lithuanian	51000	Lithuanian	Christianity
Somali	45000	Somali	Islam
Swedish	41000	Swedish	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	39000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Iraqi	36000	Arabic, Mesopotamian	Islam
Urdu	36000	Urdu	Islam
Tigray, Tigrinya	34000	Tigrigna	Christianity
Saami, Northern	34000	Saami, North	Christianity
Tigre, Eritrean	32000	Tigre	Islam
German	30000	German, Standard	Christianity
South Asian, general	28000	Urdu	Islam
Filipino, Tagalog	27000	Tagalog	Christianity
Vietnamese	25000	Vietnamese	Buddhism
Persian	25000	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Russian	24000	Russian	Christianity
Turk	22000	Turkish	Islam
Danish	22000	Danish	Christianity
Thai	21000	Thai	Buddhism
Bosniak	20000	Bosnian	Islam
Romanian	19000	Romanian	Christianity
Thai, Isan	19000	Thai, Northeastern	Buddhism
British	18000	English	Christianity
Afghan, general	17000	Dari	Islam
Serbo-Croatian	15000	Serbian	Christianity
Han Chinese, Mandarin	14000	Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious
Punjabi, Western	13000	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Latvian	11000	Latvian, Standard	Christianity
Latin American, general	11000	Spanish	Christianity
Albanian	11000	Albanian, Gheg	Islam
Chilean	8400	Spanish	Christianity
Arab, Moroccan	8300	Arabic, Moroccan	Islam
Americans, U.S.	8200	English	Christianity
Arab, North Iraqi	7900	Arabic, North Mesopotamian	Islam
Pashtun, Southern	7800	Pashto, Southern	Islam
Korean	7800	Korean	Non-Religious
Finnish	7700	Finnish	Christianity
Bulgarian	7500	Bulgarian	Christianity
Romani, Tottare	7500	Swedish	Christianity
Arab, Sudanese	7200	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Dutch	5700	Dutch	Non-Religious
Black African, general	5600	Yoruba	Christianity
Kurd, Kurmanji	5500	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Estonian	4900	Estonian, Standard	Non-Religious
Icelander	4300	Icelandic	Christianity
Romani, Vlax	3900	Romani, Vlax	Christianity
Saami, Lule	1900	Saami, Lule	Christianity
Brazilian, general	1800	Portuguese	Christianity
Finnish, Kven	1700	Finnish, Kven	Christianity

Languages

48 languages recorded here.

Albanian, Gheg

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Arabic, Moroccan

Arabic, North Mesopotamian

Arabic, Sudanese

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Chinese, Mandarin

Danish

Dari

Dutch

English

Estonian, Standard

Finnish

Finnish, Kven

German, Standard

Icelandic

Korean

Kurdish, Northern

Latvian, Standard

Lithuanian

Norwegian

Norwegian, Traveller

Pashto, Southern

Persian, Iranian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi, Western

Romani, Vlax

Romanian

Russian

Saami, Lule

Saami, North

Saami, South

Serbian

Somali

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog

Thai

Thai, Northeastern

Tigre

Tigrigna

Turkish

Urdu

Vietnamese

Yoruba

All catalogue fields

148 fields recorded

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iso2: NO
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rol3officiallanguage: nor
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percentevangelical: 7.9183172936402
c_10_40window: N
rog2: EUR
continent: Europe
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harvest_rog3: NO
harvest_iso3: NOR
harvest_iso2: NO
harvest_owcountrycode: NORW
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: NO
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harvest_ctry: Norway
harvest_ctryshort: Norway
harvest_countrynamechinese: 挪威
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 挪威
harvest_countrynamedutch: Noorwegen
harvest_countrynamefrench: Norvège
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harvest_countrynameitalian: Norvegia
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Norvegia
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harvest_populationpersquaremile: 36
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harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00