Countries
Norway
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Norway
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Habari gani?
Good Night
god natt
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
god kveld
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
god morgen
Habari za asubuhi
Please
Vær så snill
tafadhali
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
nakupenda
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Samahani
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Sogn
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Kilwa
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
Norsk
Not Available
Alternative Names
Norsk
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
swahili
German Name
Nynorsk
Swahili
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
c. 1300 AD
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Swahili
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
swah1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available
Norwegian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Swahili language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.