1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Norway
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Norway
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Norwegian Language Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
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
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Habari gani?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
god kveld
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
god morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Hallingdal, Valdres
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Norsk
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Norwegians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
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
99-AUS-m
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology