1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
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
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Nee-wa-rowt bash
بعد از ظهر بخیر
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
من شما را دوست دارم
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Western Persian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Iran, Iraq
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Dari Persian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Tajik Persian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million65.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million65.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
فارسی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old Persian and Middle Persian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology