1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Russia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
Cyrillic
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
Silaw
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Bê zehmet
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Bibûre
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Be xêr çî
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Olonets
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Novgorod
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Русский
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic