Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
آسف
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
kurde
  
arabe
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Arabs
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic