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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
takk
  
Asante
  
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
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
pole
  
Bye
ha det
  
bye
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
no
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.