Countries
Norway
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Yemen
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Hello
Thank You
takk
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
god natt
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
god kveld
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
god morgen
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Vær så snill
Fadlan
Sorry
unnskyld
sorry
Bye
ha det
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
30,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Sogn
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Norsk
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Norsk
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
somali
German Name
Nynorsk
Somali
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Somalis
Origin
c. 1300 AD
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Cushitic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Somali
Language Position
1883
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
som
ISO 639 2/B
nor
som
ISO 639 3
nor
som
ISO 639 6
nor
som
Glottocode
norw1258
soma1255
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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