Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Please
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Bye
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
anglais
  
kurde
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Kurds
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available