Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Norway
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Habari gani?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Usiku mwema
god natt
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
god kveld
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
god morgen
Please
tafadhali
Vær så snill
I Love You
nakupenda
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Samahani
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Sogn
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
Norsk
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Norsk
French Name
swahili
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Swahili
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Norwegians
Origin
6th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
Branch
Bantu
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Swahili
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swah1254
norw1258
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Swahili and Norwegian 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 Swahili and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Norwegian language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Swahili vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Swahili and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.