1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks
Rank: 2 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Silaw
3.2 Thank You
Sipas
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
Bê zehmet
3.9 Sorry
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
Be xêr çî
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
Rank: 10 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
Rank: 12 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.31 %
Rank: 39 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
kurde
5.3.5 German Name
Kurdisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Kurds
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ku
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
kur
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
kur
7.3 ISO 639 3
kur
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
kurd1259
7.6 Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available