×

Arabic
Arabic

Kurdish
Kurdish



ADD
Compare
X
Arabic
X
Kurdish

Arabic and Kurdish

Add ⊕

Countries

Countries

Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Iraq, Kurdistan

Total No. Of Countries

232
0 46
👆🏻

National Language

Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Middle East

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
-

Interesting Facts

  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  • The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
  • In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
Farsi Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2833
18 247
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

2829
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

44
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks4 weeks
3 88
👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
Silaw

Thank You

شكرا
Sipas

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
Tu çawa yî?

Good Night

تصبح على خير
Şev xweş

Good Evening

مساء الخير
Evare baş

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
Nee-wa-rowt bash

Good Morning

صباح الخير
Bayanit bash

Please

من فضلك
Bê zehmet

Sorry

آسف
Bibûre

Bye

وداعا
Be xêr çî

I Love You

أحبك
Ez te hez dikem

Excuse Me

اعذرني
Bê zehmet

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Northern Kurdish

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Sudanese
Central Kurdish

Where They Speak

Sudan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.005,000,000.00
700 274000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Levantine
Southern Kurdish

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Eastern Iraq

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.003,000,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

263
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

4.43 %0.31 %
0 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

206.00 million21.00 million
0 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

246.00 million20.00 million
0.01 400
👆🏻

Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Kurdî, کوردی‎

French Name

arabe
kurde

German Name

Arabisch
Kurdisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[kʊɾdɪʃ]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Kurds

History

Origin

512 CE
16th century CE

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

North Arabic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Kurdish

Language Position

2514
1 120
👆🏻

Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Kurdish Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
ku

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
kur

ISO 639 2/B

ara
kur

ISO 639 3

ara
kur

ISO 639 6

ara
kur

Glottocode

arab1395
kurd1259

Linguasphere

12-AAC
58-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
-

Arabic and Kurdish Alphabets

Arabic and Kurdish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Kurdish. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Kurdish Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Arabic and Kurdish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Kurdish languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Kurdish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Kurdish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Kurdish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Kurdish dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Kurdish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Kurdish Dialects are spoken in different Kurdish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Kurdish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish , Central Kurdish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Kurdish Speaking population

Arabic and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Kurdish on Arabic vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Kurdish Language Codes

Arabic and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.