1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Norway
2.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
2.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
2.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Norwegian Language Council
2.8 Interesting Facts
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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.
2.9 Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
2.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
4.6.0 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
hvordan har du det?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
Ndinokumbirawo
Vær så snill
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Jamtland,Harjedalen
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
Zezuru
Hallingmål-Valdris
7.4.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Hallingdal, Valdres
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
9.3 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
8.30 million5.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.2 Second Language Speakers
10.3.4 Native Name
10.3.5 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Norsk
10.3.6 French Name
shona
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
10.3.7 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
10.5 Ethnicity
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Northern (Scandinavian)
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Not Available
Nynorsk, Bokmål
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology