Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
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Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2941
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Bengali
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
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
nomoskaar
Thank You
Sipas
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
Şev xweş
subhoraattri
Good Evening
Evare baş
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
subha abeli
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
suprobhaat
Please
Bê zehmet
anugroha kori
Sorry
Bibûre
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Be xêr çî
biḍai
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Assam
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
kurde
assamais
German Name
Kurdisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Assamese people
Origin
16th century CE
7th century A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Assamese
Language Position
1465
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
asm
ISO 639 2/B
kur
asm
ISO 639 3
kur
asm
ISO 639 6
kur
asm
Glottocode
kurd1259
assa1263
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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-