Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
kurde
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Georgians
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic