1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China, Guangdong
1.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.9 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.10 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.11 Similar To
Farsi Language
Chinese Language
1.12 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
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century CE
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
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
58-AAA-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available