Countries
Norway
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Mappila
Where They Speak
Sogn
India
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
France, kerala
Speaking Population
Not Available
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)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Malayali
Origin
c. 1300 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early form
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Malayalam
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
mala1464
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic
Norwegian and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Malayalam language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.