Countries
Myanmar
  
Norway
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
- 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
Thai Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
takk
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
god morgen
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
ha det
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Norsk
  
French Name
birman
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional
  
Burmese 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 Burmese and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Norwegian language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Burmese vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese 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 Burmese and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.