Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
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
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Şev xweş
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Evare baş
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
مساء الخير
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
صباح الخير
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
أحبك
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Sudan
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Levantine
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Kurdisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Origin
16th century CE
512 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
Glottocode
kurd1259
arab1395
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic
Kurdish and Arabic Speaking population
Kurdish and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Kurdish and Arabic on Kurdish vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Arabic Language Codes
Kurdish and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.