1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Germany
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Council for German Orthography
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
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?
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Germany
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00820,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Texas German
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Deutsch
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
6th Century AD
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
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
7.5 Glottocode
kurd1259
high1287, uppe1397
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, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic