Countries
Norway
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Yoruba 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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
takk
e dupe
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
god natt
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
god kveld
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
e kaasan
Good Morning
god morgen
e kaaro
Please
Vær så snill
Jowo
Sorry
unnskyld
binu
Bye
ha det
bye
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Ede
Where They Speak
Sogn
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1920
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Norsk
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
yoruba
German Name
Nynorsk
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Yoruba people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Western Sudanic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Yorùbá
Language Position
1849
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
yor
ISO 639 2/B
nor
yor
ISO 639 3
nor
yor
ISO 639 6
nor
yor
Glottocode
norw1258
yoru1245
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-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating