Countries
Norway
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Norway
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
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.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
takk
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
unjani
  
Good Night
god natt
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
ha det
  
bye
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Norsk
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
19
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Deep Zulu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Zulu Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Norwegian and Zulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Zulu language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Zulu word for "Thank You" is Ngiyabonga. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Zulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Zulu Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Zulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Zulu Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Norwegian and Zulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Zulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Zulu time required is 44 weeks.