Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
maaf
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
kurde
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Kurdish and Indonesian Speaking population
Kurdish and Indonesian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Indonesian languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Indonesian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kurdish and Indonesian on Kurdish vs Indonesian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Indonesian Language Codes
Kurdish and Indonesian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Indonesian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.