Countries
Norway
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2921
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2019
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Bwakeye
Thank You
takk
Urakoze
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
god natt
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
god kveld
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
god morgen
Mwaramutse
Please
Vær så snill
Ndagusavye
Sorry
unnskyld
Ndasubiza
Bye
ha det
N’agasaga
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
30,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Ha
Where They Speak
Sogn
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Shubi
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
196
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Norsk
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
rundi
German Name
Nynorsk
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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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
Kirundi
Language Position
1886
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
no
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
run
ISO 639 2/B
nor
run
ISO 639 3
nor
run
ISO 639 6
nor
run
Glottocode
norw1258
rund1242
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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