Countries
Norway
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
hallo
Thank You
takk
Dankie
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
god natt
goeie nag
Good Evening
god kveld
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Goeie middag
Good Morning
god morgen
goeie more
Please
Vær så snill
asseblief
Sorry
unnskyld
jammer
Bye
ha det
Totsiens
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Sogn
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Namibia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Norsk
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Norsk
Cape Dutch
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
afrikaans
German Name
Nynorsk
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 1300 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
1823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
afr
ISO 639 2/B
nor
afr
ISO 639 3
nor
afr
ISO 639 6
nor
afrs
Glottocode
norw1258
afri1274
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic