Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Iraq, Kurdistan
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Farsi Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
Şev xweş
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
صباح الخير
Bayanit bash
I Love You
أحبك
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Sudan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Dialect 3
Levantine
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Eastern Iraq
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Not Available
German Name
Arabisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Origin
512 CE
16th century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Not Available
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Kurdish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
kurd1259
Linguasphere
12-AAC
58-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Arabic and Kurdish Speaking population
Arabic and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Kurdish on Arabic vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Kurdish Language Codes
Arabic and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.