Countries
Norway
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Norway
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
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.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
takk
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
ha det
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
33
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
Norsk
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Malayali
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic