Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
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Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2916
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
ete-sen
Thank You
Sipas
meda ase
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
Şev xweş
maadwo
Good Evening
Evare baş
maadwo
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
maaha
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
maakye
Please
Bê zehmet
wae
Sorry
Bibûre
Kafra
Bye
Be xêr çî
bye
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Asante
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Ghana
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Ghana
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Fante
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Ghana
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Akan
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Twi, Fante
French Name
kurde
akan
German Name
Kurdisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Akan people
Origin
16th century CE
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Akan
Language Position
14104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
aka
ISO 639 2/B
kur
aka
ISO 639 3
kur
aka
ISO 639 6
kur
aka
Glottocode
kurd1259
akan1251
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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