Countries
Norway
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2041
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
takk
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
god natt
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
god kveld
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
god morgen
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Vær så snill
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
unnskyld
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
ha det
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
30,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Mappila
Where They Speak
Sogn
India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
malayalam
German Name
Nynorsk
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Malayali
Origin
c. 1300 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early form
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Malayalam
Language Position
1829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
mal
ISO 639 2/B
nor
mal
ISO 639 3
nor
mal
ISO 639 6
nor
mal
Glottocode
norw1258
mala1464
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic