Countries
Norway
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2957
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2050
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Sawubona
Thank You
takk
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
unjani
Good Night
god natt
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
god kveld
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
god morgen
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Vær så snill
Ngiyacela
Sorry
unnskyld
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
ha det
bye
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
30,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Sogn
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
194
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million12.00 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
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Norsk
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
zoulou
German Name
Nynorsk
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Zulu people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Deep Zulu
Language Position
1887
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
zul
ISO 639 2/B
nor
zul
ISO 639 3
nor
zul
ISO 639 6
nor
zul
Glottocode
norw1258
zulu1248
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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