Countries
Nigeria
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Norway
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4429
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3220
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
hallo
Thank You
gode ku
takk
How Are You?
yaya dai
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
god natt
Good Evening
barka da yamma
god kveld
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
god morgen
Please
Don Allah
Vær så snill
Sorry
yi hakuri
unnskyld
Bye
sai anjima
ha det
I Love You
Ina son ku
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
gafara dai
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Ghana
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Niger
Sogn
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Niger
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
50.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2019
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Norsk
French Name
haoussa
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Norwegians
Origin
14
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Hausa
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
3418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ha
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
nor
ISO 639 2/B
hau
nor
ISO 639 3
hau
nor
ISO 639 6
hau
nor
Glottocode
haus1257
norw1258
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional