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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Nynorsk
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
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?
unjani
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
god kveld
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
god morgen
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sognamål
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sogn
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Ndebele
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Zimbabwe
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.00 million12.00 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
zoulou
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
99-AUT-fg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology