1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Iran
1.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
1.8 Regulated By
Not Available
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
1.9 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
1.10 Similar To
Farsi Language
Kurdish and Persian
1.11 Derived From
Not Available
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.4.3 How Many Consonants
2.7 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Perso-Arabic script
2.8 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
2.9 Hard to Learn
2.9.1 Language Levels
2.9.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
jawáin sawáh
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Tu mana doost biyeh
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Eastern Balochi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Western Balochi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Southern Balochi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.003,400,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
بلوچی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
Kurds
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
19th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available