Countries
Norway
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Norway
  
Nigeria
  
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
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Yoruba Academy
  
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.
  
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
takk
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
binu
  
Bye
ha det
  
bye
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Norsk
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Yorùbá
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
yoru1245
  
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
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Norwegian and Yoruba Speaking population
Norwegian and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Norwegian and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Norwegian and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Norwegian vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Norwegian and Yoruba Language Codes
Norwegian and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Norwegian and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.