Countries
Norway
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Norway
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
god natt
شب بخیر
Good Evening
god kveld
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
god morgen
صبح به خیر
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Sogn
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Alternative Names
Norsk
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
persan
German Name
Nynorsk
Persisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Persian people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Iranian
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Persian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
fars1254
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic
Norwegian and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Norwegian and Persian language. Norwegian word for "Hello" is hallo or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Norwegian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Norwegian vs Persian Difficulty
The Norwegian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Norwegian Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Norwegian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Norwegian is 24 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.