Countries
Zimbabwe
  
Norway
  
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Mhoro
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Waita zvako
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Manheru
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Masikati
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Mangwanani
  
god morgen
  
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
Ndineurombo
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
bye
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Ndinokuda
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Hwesa
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Karanga
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Zezuru
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.30 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not Available
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
Norsk
  
French Name
shona
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Schona-Sprache
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
20th century
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Not Available
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sn
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sna
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
sna
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
sna
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
core1255
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Shona and Norwegian Speaking population
Shona and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. 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 Shona and Norwegian on Shona vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Shona and Norwegian Language Codes
Shona and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Shona and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.