Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Malta
  
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
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Malti
  
French Name
kurde
  
maltais
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Maltese
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Kurdish and Maltese Speaking population
Kurdish and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese 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 Maltese on Kurdish vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Maltese Language Codes
Kurdish and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.