Countries
Norway
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Norway
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Nynorsk
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
takk
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
god natt
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
god kveld
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
god morgen
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
ha det
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
Norsk
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Norsk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
kurde
  
German Name
Nynorsk
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Norwegians
  
Kurds
  
Origin
c. 1300 AD
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Kurdish
  
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
no
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Norwegian and Kurdish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Norwegian and Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Kurdish language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Kurdish Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Kurdish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Norwegian and Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.