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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Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Sipas
  
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
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Be xêr çî
  
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
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Not Available
  
French Name
arabe
  
kurde
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Kurds
  
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
ar
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Arabic and Kurdish 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 Arabic and Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Kurdish language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Kurdish Difficulty
The Arabic vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Kurdish 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 Arabic and Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.