Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Norway
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
- 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
Romanian
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
god morgen
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
ha det
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Norsk
  
French Name
albanais
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Albanian 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 Albanian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Albanian and Norwegian language. Albanian word for "Hello" is Përshëndetje or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Albanian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Albanian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Albanian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Albanian 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 Albanian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Albanian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Albanian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.