Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
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
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
kurde
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Malayali
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Kurdish and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Malayalam language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.