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
  
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
bonjour
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Sipas
  
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
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Be xêr çî
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
African French
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
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
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
fr
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
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
  
French 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 French and Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Kurdish language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common French Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Kurdish Difficulty
The French vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.