Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Nigeria
  
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
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
binu
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
bye
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
28.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
kurde
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Yorùbá
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Kurdish and Yoruba Speaking population
Kurdish and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Kurdish vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Yoruba Language Codes
Kurdish and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.