Countries
Norway
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Norway
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Hai
  
Thank You
takk
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
sila
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
maaf
  
Bye
ha det
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Norsk
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
malais
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
c. 683 AD
  
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
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
stan1306
  
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
  
Agglutinative
  
Norwegian and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Malaysian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.