Countries
Norway
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
National Language
Norway
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Somalia
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
akkam
  
Thank You
takk
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
ha det
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
24.00 million
  
33
Native Name
Norsk
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
galla
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Oromos
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
nucl1736
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Oromo Speaking population
Norwegian and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Norwegian and Oromo on Norwegian vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Oromo Language Codes
Norwegian and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.