Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
Similar To
Farsi Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Silaw
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Sipas
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Şev xweş
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Evare baş
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Bê zehmet
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Bibûre
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Be xêr çî
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
12
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
kurde
  
persan
  
German Name
Kurdisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Kurds
  
Persian people
  
Origin
16th century CE
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Not Available
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Kurdish
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ku
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kur
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
kur
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
kur
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kurd1259
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Kurdish and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Persian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Persian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.