Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Germany
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
bitte
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
kurde
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Kurds
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German 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 German and Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Kurdish language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common German Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Kurdish Difficulty
The German vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.