Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Assamese and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3351
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2940
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Thank You
Sipas
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Good Evening
Evare baş
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Please
Bê zehmet
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Sorry
Bibûre
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Bye
Be xêr çî
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Chakma
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bangladesh, Burma, India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00330,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Hajong
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0071,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Rarhi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
India
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00230,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million215.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %3.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million196.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million19.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
French Name
kurde
bengali
German Name
Kurdisch
Bengali
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈbeŋɡali]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Origin
16th century CE
1000–1200 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Bengali
Language Position
144
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Bengali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
bn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ben
ISO 639 2/B
kur
ben
ISO 639 3
kur
ben
ISO 639 6
kur
ben
Glottocode
kurd1259
beng1280
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAF-u
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-