Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
20
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3343
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2934
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
Sipas
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
Evare baş
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
Bê zehmet
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
Bibûre
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
Be xêr çî
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
India
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
kurde
bhojpuri
German Name
Kurdisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bhojpuri speakers
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
Bhojpuri
Language Position
1437
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bho
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bho
ISO 639 3
kur
bho
ISO 639 6
kur
bho
Glottocode
kurd1259
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-