Countries
Norway
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Norway
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
takk
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
ha det
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Norsk
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
hindi
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Norwegian and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Hindi language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Hindi Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.