1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
German and English Languages
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Limburgian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Nederlands
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
kurde
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
AD 450-500
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology