Countries
Norway
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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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
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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
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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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
30,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Sogn
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
193
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Norsk
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
kurde
German Name
Nynorsk
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
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)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Kurdish
Language Position
1814
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Kurdish Sign Language
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
nor
kur
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
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