Countries
Norway
  
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
  
National Language
Norway
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
takk
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
god natt
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
آسف
  
Bye
ha det
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Norsk
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic