1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India, Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
1.9 Similar To
Farsi Language
Hindi Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.4 Phonology
1.4.1 How Many Vowels
1.4.2 How Many Consonants
1.8 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
1.9 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.10 Hard to Learn
1.10.1 Language Levels
1.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
2.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
2.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
2.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
2.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
2.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
2.8 Please
Bê zehmet
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
2.9 Sorry
Bibûre
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
2.10 Bye
Be xêr çî
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
2.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
2.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Pothohari
3.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Pakistan
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
3.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0020,000,000.00
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Pakistan, Punjab, India
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million154.30 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million100.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Kurdisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Availble
4.5 Ethnicity
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System (ISS)
5.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology