1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sognamål
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology