1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Armenian Highland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Armenian manuscript
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Sipas
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Բարի օր (Bari or)
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
3.8 Please
Bê zehmet
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Eastern Armenian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Western Armenian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not Applicable
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Not Applicable
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million6.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million6.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
late 5th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic