Countries
Norway
India, Nepal
National Language
Norway
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
takk
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
god natt
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
god kveld
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
god morgen
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Vær så snill
कृपया
Sorry
unnskyld
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ha det
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Doteli
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Nepal
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Sogn
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Nepal
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
népalais
German Name
Nynorsk
Nepali
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Indic
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative
Norwegian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Nepali language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.