National Language
Norway
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Mon
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
takk
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
god natt
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
god kveld
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
god morgen
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Vær så snill
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
unnskyld
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
ha det
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Sogn
Myanmar
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Intha
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Burma
Native Name
Norsk
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
birman
German Name
Nynorsk
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Bamar people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Burmese sign language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
norw1258
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating
Norwegian and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Burmese language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.