National Language
Myanmar
Norway
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Mon
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Thai Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
hallo
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
takk
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
god natt
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
god morgen
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Vær så snill
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
unnskyld
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
ha det
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Sogn
Dialect 3
Intha
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Burma
Hallingdal, Valdres
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Norsk
French Name
birman
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Birmanisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Norwegians
Origin
1113 AD
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Glottocode
sout3159
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
Burmese and Norwegian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Burmese and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Norwegian language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Burmese vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Norwegian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Burmese and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.