Countries
Indonesia
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Silaw
Thank You
matur nuwun
Sipas
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Bayanit bash
Please
matur nuwun
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bibûre
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Indonesia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
javanais
kurde
German Name
Javanisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Kurds
Origin
450 AD
16th century CE
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Javanese
Kurdish
Language Position
1114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
jv
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
kur
ISO 639 2/B
jav
kur
ISO 639 3
jav
kur
ISO 639 6
jav
kur
Glottocode
java1253
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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