Countries
Estonia, European Union
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
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Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Finnish
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1829
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Silaw
Thank You
aitäh
Sipas
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Head ööd
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Bayanit bash
Please
Palun
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Vabandust
Bibûre
Bye
Head aega
Be xêr çî
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
estonien
kurde
German Name
Estnisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Kurds
Origin
13th century
16th century CE
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Estonian
Kurdish
Language Position
2214
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
et
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
kur
ISO 639 2/B
est
kur
ISO 639 3
est
kur
ISO 639 6
est
kur
Glottocode
esto1258
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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