Countries
Norway
Macedonia
National Language
Norway
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
takk
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
god natt
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
god kveld
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
god morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Vær så snill
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Where They Speak
Sogn
Macedonia
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Macedonia
Native Name
Norsk
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
macédonien
German Name
Nynorsk
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Macedonians
Origin
c. 1300 AD
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Southern
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Macedonian
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
norw1258
mace1250
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic
Norwegian and Macedonian 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 Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Macedonian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.