Countries
Norway
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Thailand
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Hai
Thank You
takk
terima kasih
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
god natt
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
god kveld
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
god morgen
Selamat pagi
Please
Vær så snill
sila
Sorry
unnskyld
maaf
Bye
ha det
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Pekal
Where They Speak
Sogn
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Musi
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1924
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million77.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Norsk
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
malais
German Name
Nynorsk
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Malaysian people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
1854
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
msa
ISO 639 2/B
nor
may
ISO 639 3
nor
zsm
ISO 639 6
nor
may
Glottocode
norw1258
stan1306
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative