National Language
Norway
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Munda Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
god natt
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
god kveld
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
संध्यायान
Good Morning
god morgen
Boge Setak’
Please
Vær så snill
দয়া করে
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Mahali
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
India
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Not present
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not present
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
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Native Name
Norsk
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
santal
German Name
Nynorsk
Santali
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 1300 AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
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
Santali
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
No data available
Glottocode
norw1258
sant1410
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Norwegian and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Santali language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Santali Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Santali time required is 44 weeks.