Somali vs Norwegian - Language

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Languages bring people closer. If you want to travel abroad, the Justlearn team has created useful stats for you. Here is our comparision.

Somali Language

Mastering Somali will take from you 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated 2 point.

Norwegian Language

Learning Norwegian might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 575-600 hours or 23-24 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is 1.

Somali Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Somali In Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Djibouti, and by the Somali diaspora.
Number of native speakers is about 8,300,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 16,600,000. The biggest country in which Somali is used as a native language is Somalia.

Norwegian Community

Native speakers of Norwegian are mostly from Norway and are about 4,640,000 people.
Norwegian are spoken fluently by 4,741,780 people.
The language is spoken in Norway, US, Canada, Sweden.

Somali Origin

Somali came from East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Norwegian Origin

Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family is the origin of Norwegian Language