Countries
Norway
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Norway
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Arabic.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
god natt
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
god kveld
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
مساء الخير
Good Morning
god morgen
صباح الخير
Please
Vær så snill
من فضلك
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
أحبك
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Sogn
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Levantine
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Norsk
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
arabe
German Name
Nynorsk
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Arabs
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
North Arabic
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Arabic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
arab1395
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Norwegian and Arabic 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 Norwegian and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Arabic language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Arabic Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Arabic 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 Norwegian and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.