Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
sila
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
maaf
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
kurde
  
malais
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Kurdish and Malaysian Speaking population
Kurdish and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian 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 Malaysian on Kurdish vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Malaysian Language Codes
Kurdish and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.