Countries
Norway
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2937
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2046
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Mhoro
Thank You
takk
Waita zvako
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
god natt
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
god kveld
Manheru
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Masikati
Good Morning
god morgen
Mangwanani
Please
Vær så snill
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
unnskyld
Ndineurombo
Bye
ha det
bye
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
30,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Karanga
Where They Speak
Sogn
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
194
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
chiShona
Alternative Names
Norsk
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
shona
German Name
Nynorsk
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Shona people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Shona
Language Position
18107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Shona
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
sna
ISO 639 2/B
nor
sna
ISO 639 3
nor
sna
ISO 639 6
nor
sna
Glottocode
norw1258
core1255
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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