Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
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.
  
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Molo
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
20.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
kurde
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
isiXhosa
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Kurdish and Xhosa Speaking population
Kurdish and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. 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 Xhosa on Kurdish vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Xhosa Language Codes
Kurdish and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.