Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Norway
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Thailand
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Tamil Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
hallo
Thank You
terima kasih
takk
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
god natt
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
god morgen
Please
sila
Vær så snill
Sorry
maaf
unnskyld
Bye
Selamat tinggal
ha det
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
30,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Musi
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2419
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Norsk
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Norsk
French Name
malais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Malaiisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Norwegians
Origin
c. 683 AD
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
5418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ms
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
nor
ISO 639 2/B
may
nor
ISO 639 3
zsm
nor
ISO 639 6
may
nor
Glottocode
stan1306
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional