Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Norway
National Language
China, Taiwan
Norway
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Not Available
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
takk
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
god natt
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
god morgen
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Vær så snill
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
unnskyld
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Sogn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Not Available
Norsk
French Name
chinois
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Chinesisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Origin
1250 BC
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
79-AAA
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
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
Chinese 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 Chinese and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Norwegian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.