Countries
Norway
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Norway
  
China, Mongolia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
takk
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
ha det
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
Norsk
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
mongol
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Mongolian 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 Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Mongolian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Mongolian 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 Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.