National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Not Available
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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.
Similar To
Munda Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
god natt
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Not Available
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
god morgen
Please
Not Available
Vær så snill
Sorry
Not Available
unnskyld
I Love You
Not Available
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Not Available
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Mahali
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
India
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Not Available
Sogn
Dialect 3
Not present
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Not Available
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Norsk
French Name
santal
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Santali
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Norwegians
Origin
20th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Santali
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
no
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sant1410
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Santali and Norwegian 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 Santali and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Santali and Norwegian language. Santali word for "Hello" is Henda ho or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Santali Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Santali vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Santali vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Santali Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Santali and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Santali and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Santali is Not Available while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.