Countries
Norway
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Ghana
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
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2921
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2016
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
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
ete-sen
Thank You
takk
meda ase
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
god natt
maadwo
Good Evening
god kveld
maadwo
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
maaha
Good Morning
god morgen
maakye
Please
Vær så snill
wae
Sorry
unnskyld
Kafra
Bye
ha det
bye
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Asante
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Ghana
How Many People Speak
30,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Sogn
Ghana
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Fante
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Ghana
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Norsk
Akan
Alternative Names
Norsk
Twi, Fante
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
akan
German Name
Nynorsk
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Akan people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Akan
Language Position
18104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
no
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
aka
ISO 639 2/B
nor
aka
ISO 639 3
nor
aka
ISO 639 6
nor
aka
Glottocode
norw1258
akan1251
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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