Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
haluta
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
kurde
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Kurds
  
Origin
1543
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Kurdish
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Kurdish Speaking population
Finnish and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available 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 Finnish and Kurdish on Finnish vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Kurdish Language Codes
Finnish and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.