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Countries

Countries

Norway
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Norway
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.

Similar To

Swedish and Danish Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Habari

Thank You

takk
Asante

How Are You?

hvordan har du det?
Habari gani?

Good Night

god natt
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

god kveld
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

god ettermiddag
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

god morgen
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Vær så snill
tafadhali

Sorry

unnskyld
pole

Bye

ha det
bye

I Love You

Jeg Elsker Deg
nakupenda

Excuse Me

unnskyld meg
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jamtlandic
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Jamtland,Harjedalen
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

30,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sognamål
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Sogn
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hallingmål-Valdris
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Hallingdal, Valdres
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1912
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Norsk
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Norsk
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
swahili

German Name

Nynorsk
Swahili

Pronunciation

[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Norwegians
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

c. 1300 AD
6th 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
No early forms

Standard Forms

Nynorsk, Bokmål
Swahili

Language Position

1821
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Norwegian
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

no
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nor
swa

ISO 639 2/B

nor
swa

ISO 639 3

nor
swa

ISO 639 6

nor
swa

Glottocode

norw1258
swah1254

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
-

Norwegian and Swahili Alphabets

Norwegian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Norwegian and Swahili. In Norwegian Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Norwegian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Norwegian and Swahili languages. The Norwegian phonology consist Norwegian vowels and Norwegian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Norwegian greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Norwegian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Norwegian and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Norwegian and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Norwegian and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Norwegian are spoken in different Norwegian Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Norwegian vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Norwegian dialects include: Jamtlandic, Sognamål. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Norwegian and Swahili Speaking population

Norwegian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Swahili on Norwegian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Norwegian and Swahili Language Codes

Norwegian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.