Countries
Norway
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Ethiopia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2031
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
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
Selam
Thank You
takk
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
god natt
Dehna dur
Good Evening
god kveld
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
god morgen
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Vær så snill
i'bakwon
Sorry
unnskyld
aznallehu
Bye
ha det
tschao
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gondar
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gondar
How Many People Speak
30,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Sogn
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Showa
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
195
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Norsk
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
amharique
German Name
Nynorsk
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Amharas
Origin
c. 1300 AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Amharic
Language Position
1855
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Amharic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
amh
ISO 639 2/B
nor
amh
ISO 639 3
nor
amh
ISO 639 6
nor
amh
Glottocode
norw1258
amha1245
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional