Countries
Norway
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Norway
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
takk
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
god natt
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
god kveld
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
god morgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Vær så snill
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
unnskyld
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Sogn
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Yue
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Not Available
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
chinois
German Name
Nynorsk
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
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Origin
c. 1300 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
norw1258
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating
Norwegian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Chinese language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.