Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
bye
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
8.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
kurde
  
shona
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Not Available
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Kurdish and Shona Speaking population
Kurdish and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. 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 Shona on Kurdish vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Shona Language Codes
Kurdish and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.