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