Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
kurde
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Macedonian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Kurdish and Macedonian Speaking population
Kurdish and Macedonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Macedonian languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Macedonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is Not Available. 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 Macedonian on Kurdish vs Macedonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Macedonian Language Codes
Kurdish and Macedonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Macedonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.