Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
76.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
kurde
  
javanais
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Javanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
java1253
  
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
  
Agglutinative
  
Kurdish and Javanese 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 Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Javanese language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Javanese Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.