Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Norway
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- 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
Indonesian Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
hallo
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
god morgen
  
Please
sila
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
maaf
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Norsk
  
French Name
malais
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
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
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Norwegian language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.