Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Iran
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
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Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
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Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3334
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2926
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Salam
Thank You
Sipas
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
chone tao?
Good Night
Şev xweş
jawáin shap
Good Evening
Evare baş
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
jawáin sawáh
Please
Bê zehmet
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
Bibûre
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
Be xêr çî
bye
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Baluchi
French Name
kurde
baloutchi
German Name
Kurdisch
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
16th century CE
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Balochi
Language Position
1439
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bal
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bal
ISO 639 3
kur
bal
ISO 639 6
kur
bal
Glottocode
kurd1259
balo1260
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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