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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
سلام
  
Thank You
takk
  
متشکرم
  
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
  
Please
Vær så snill
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
unnskyld
  
متاسف
  
Bye
ha det
  
خدا حافظ
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Sognamål
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Sogn
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.00 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Norsk
  
فارسی
  
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
no
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nor
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
nor
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
nor
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
norw1258
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.