Countries
Norway
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2028
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 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
kedụ
Thank You
takk
dalụ
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
god natt
ka chi fo
Good Evening
god kveld
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
god morgen
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Vær så snill
Biko
Sorry
unnskyld
Ndo
Bye
ha det
Kachifo
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Enuani
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
30,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Sogn
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Not present
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1920
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Norsk
igbo
Alternative Names
Norsk
Ibo
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
igbo
German Name
Nynorsk
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Igbo people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Kwa
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1857
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
nor
ibo
ISO 639 3
nor
ibo
ISO 639 6
nor
ibo
Glottocode
norw1258
nucl1417
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
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative