Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
China
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
China
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
birdam
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
kachurung
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
8.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
kurde
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
11
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Uyghur
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Kurdish and Uyghur Speaking population
Kurdish and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Uyghur language is 0.12 %. 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 Uyghur on Kurdish vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Uyghur Language Codes
Kurdish and Uyghur language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Uyghur Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.