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moroh: What language is this?

Norwegian.

Ballong.

I only went into page 2, but..

My husband is a fulani, I am a norwegian. Only three people in his family speaks english, the rest speak fulani, wollof, mandinka and small arabic.
If he is on the phone, he is on the phone. He is not talking to me just because it is in front of me, he is talking to who-ever is on the line, and should talk his mother-language when talking to others who speak the same language.
I do the same. I am not going to talk english to my parents or friends or siblings on the phone, just because he is there.

It is different if we are sitting down together, talking. Then it should be in english, as far as possible.
In Norway, when we sit down with my friends, we speak english 98% of the time. He try to do the same with his friends both in Norway, and Africa. Sometimes he even have to sit and translate every sentence of the convo in Africa because his family don`t speak english..

I can understand that a man/woman get insecure when the spouse is on the phone, and you have no idea what they are talking about..learn some of the words, ask what this and that means, and ask after what they were talking about. Not worse than that..