Countries
South Africa
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Norway
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
hallo
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
takk
How Are You?
Unjani
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
god natt
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Molo
god morgen
Please
Ndicela
Vær så snill
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
unnskyld
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
ha det
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Uxolo
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
South Africa
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Sognamål
Where They Speak
South Africa
Sogn
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
South Africa
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
19.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
919
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
Norsk
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Norsk
French Name
xhosa
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Norwegians
Origin
16th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
Branch
Bantu
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2118
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
xh
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
nor
ISO 639 2/B
xho
nor
ISO 639 3
xho
nor
ISO 639 6
xho
nor
Glottocode
xhos1239
norw1258
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional