Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Iraq, Kurdistan
National Language
France
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Middle East
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Italian Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Şev xweş
Good Evening
bonsoir
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Bonjour
Bayanit bash
Please
S'il vous plaît
Bê zehmet
I Love You
Je t'aime
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Dialect 2
African French
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Eastern Iraq
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
français
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Français
Not Available
French Name
français
kurde
German Name
Französisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Kurds
Origin
9th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Not Available
Standard Forms
Standard French
Kurdish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
kurd1259
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
58-AAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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French and Kurdish Speaking population
French and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of French and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % 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 French and Kurdish on French vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
French and Kurdish Language Codes
French and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.