Countries
Norway
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2944
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2032
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
sannu
Thank You
takk
gode ku
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
yaya dai
Good Night
god natt
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
god kveld
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
barka da rana
Good Morning
god morgen
mai kyau safe
Please
Vær så snill
Don Allah
Sorry
unnskyld
yi hakuri
Bye
ha det
sai anjima
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Ghana
How Many People Speak
30,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Sogn
Niger
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Niger
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1920
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
haoussa
German Name
Nynorsk
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Chadic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Hausa
Language Position
1834
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Hausa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
hau
ISO 639 2/B
nor
hau
ISO 639 3
nor
hau
ISO 639 6
nor
hau
Glottocode
norw1258
haus1257
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional