Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Silaw
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Sipas
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Bê zehmet
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Bibûre
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Be xêr çî
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Olonets
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Русский
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
German Name
Kurdisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Origin
16th century CE
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Not Available
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kurd1259
russ1263
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Kurdish and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Russian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Russian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.