Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Norway
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
hallo
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
takk
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
god morgen
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
آسف
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
وداعا
  
ha det
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Norsk
  
French Name
arabe
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
512 CE
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
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
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional