Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3229
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
sannu
Silaw
Thank You
gode ku
Sipas
How Are You?
yaya dai
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
Şev xweş
Good Evening
barka da yamma
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
Bayanit bash
Please
Don Allah
Bê zehmet
Sorry
yi hakuri
Bibûre
Bye
sai anjima
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Ina son ku
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
gafara dai
Bê zehmet
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Ghana
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Niger
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Daragaram
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Niger
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
50.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.52 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
35.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
haoussa
kurde
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Kurds
History
Origin
14
16th century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
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-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Hausa
Kurdish
Language Position
3414
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ha
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
kur
ISO 639 2/B
hau
kur
ISO 639 3
hau
kur
ISO 639 6
hau
kur
Glottocode
haus1257
kurd1259
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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