Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
kurde
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Kurdish and Abkhaz Speaking population
Kurdish and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is Not Available. 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 Kurdish and Abkhaz on Kurdish vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Abkhaz Language Codes
Kurdish and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.