Countries
Norway
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Norway
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
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.
  
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Tagalog Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Spanish Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kumusta
  
Thank You
takk
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Kumusta
  
Good Night
god natt
  
magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Magandang hapon
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Magandang umaga
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Mangyaring
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
ha det
  
Paalam
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Mahal kita
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
patawarin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Bikol
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Hiligaynon
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
8,200,000.00
  
11
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Waray
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,600,000.00
  
13
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
90.00 million
  
17
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
45.00 million
  
23
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Norsk
  
filipino
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Pilipino
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
filipino; pilipino
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Pilipino
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian 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 forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
No Data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
fil
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
fil
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
fil
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
fili1244
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Filipino 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 Filipino greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Filipino language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Filipino word for "Thank You" is Salamat. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Filipino Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Filipino Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Filipino difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Filipino 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 Filipino are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Filipino, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Filipino time required is 44 weeks.