Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
bok
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
molim
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
kurde
  
croate
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Croats
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Kurdish and Croatian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Kurdish and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Croatian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Croatian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Croatian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Kurdish and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.