Countries
Wales
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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.
Similar To
English Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
British Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
hallo
Thank You
Diolch
takk
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Nos da
god natt
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
god kveld
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Bore da
god morgen
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
Vær så snill
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
unnskyld
Bye
Hwyl
ha det
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Argentina
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
38,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Sogn
How Many People Speak
700,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Powys
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
700,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
819
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Norsk
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Norsk
French Name
gallois
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kymrisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Norwegians
Origin
9th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Germanic
Branch
Brythonic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Welsh
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
3118
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
cy
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
nor
ISO 639 2/B
wel
nor
ISO 639 3
cym
nor
ISO 639 6
cym
nor
Glottocode
wels1247
norw1258
Linguasphere
50-ABA
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional