Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
kurde
  
allemand
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Germans
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Kurdish and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and German language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs German Difficulty
The Kurdish vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.