Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Kaixo
Thank You
Sipas
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Zer moduz?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Gabon
Good Evening
Evare baş
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Egun on
Please
Bê zehmet
Mesedez
Sorry
Bibûre
Barkatu
Bye
Be xêr çî
Agur
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
France
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Souletin
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Spain
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Euskara
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
kurde
basque
German Name
Kurdisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Basque people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1000
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Basque
Language Position
1430
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ku
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
eus
ISO 639 2/B
kur
baq
ISO 639 3
kur
eus
ISO 639 6
kur
eus
Glottocode
kurd1259
basq1248
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative