Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
désolé
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Français
  
French Name
kurde
  
français
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic