1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating