Countries
India
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
India
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Bengali Language
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
kurde
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Kurds
  
Origin
15
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available