1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Norway
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.10 National Language
Norway
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
3.11 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.12 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
3.13 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.14 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
3.15 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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
3.16 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
3.17 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.4 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
4.3.1 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Habari gani?
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
god kveld
Habari za jioni
5.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
nzuri Alasiri
5.7 Good Morning
god morgen
Habari za asubuhi
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Zanzibar island
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.2 Dialect 2
6.2.1 Where They Speak
6.2.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Kimgao
7.4.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Kilwa
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
8.8 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
4.4 Speaking Population
4.7 Native Speakers
5.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
4.8.1 Second Language Speakers
5.1.1 Native Name
5.1.2 Alternative Names
Norsk
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.1.3 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
swahili
5.1.4 German Name
5.2 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
5.3 Ethnicity
Norwegians
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology