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 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.