Countries
Nigeria
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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 Hausa Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
hallo
Thank You
dalụ
takk
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
ka chi fo
god natt
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
god kveld
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
god morgen
Please
Biko
Vær så snill
Sorry
Ndo
unnskyld
Bye
Kachifo
ha det
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Enuani
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
-
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
24.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2019
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Norsk
Alternative Names
Ibo
Norsk
French Name
igbo
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Norwegians
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
5718
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ig
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
nor
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
nor
ISO 639 3
ibo
nor
ISO 639 6
ibo
nor
Glottocode
nucl1417
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional