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