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
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2043
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Molo
Thank You
takk
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Unjani
Good Night
god natt
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
god kveld
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
god morgen
Molo
Please
Vær så snill
Ndicela
Sorry
unnskyld
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
ha det
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
South Africa
How Many People Speak
30,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Thembu
Where They Speak
Sogn
South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
199
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Norsk
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
xhosa
German Name
Nynorsk
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1300 AD
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
isiXhosa
Language Position
1821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
no
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
xho
ISO 639 2/B
nor
xho
ISO 639 3
nor
xho
ISO 639 6
nor
xho
Glottocode
norw1258
xhos1239
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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