Countries
Norway
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
-
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2921
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2016
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Hoy
Thank You
takk
Salamat
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
god natt
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
god kveld
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
god morgen
Maayong Buntag
Please
Vær så snill
Palihug
Sorry
unnskyld
Ikasubo ko
Bye
ha det
Babay
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Boholano
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Bohol
How Many People Speak
30,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Sogn
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
North Kana
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
194
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Visayan
Alternative Names
Norsk
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
cebuano
German Name
Nynorsk
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Cebuano people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian 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
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
1862
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
nor
ceb
ISO 639 3
nor
ceb
ISO 639 6
nor
ceb
Glottocode
norw1258
cebu1242
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
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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