Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Russia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
kurde
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Kurds
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available