Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Turkish Language Association
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
günaydın
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
kurde
  
turc
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Turkish
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic