National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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.
Similar To
Munda Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
god natt
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
god kveld
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
god morgen
Please
দয়া করে
Vær så snill
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Mahali
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
India
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Dialect 2
Not present
Sognamål
Dialect 3
Not present
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
-
Hallingdal, Valdres
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Norsk
French Name
santal
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Santali
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Norwegians
Origin
20th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Santali
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
no
Glottocode
sant1410
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional