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
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Arabic
Northern (Scandinavian)
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
norw1258
Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional
Arabic 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 Arabic and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Norwegian language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Arabic vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic 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 Arabic and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.