Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Assam, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Assam, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
-
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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3345
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2925
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks34 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
नमस्कार
Thank You
Sipas
धन्यवाद
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Nungni khabora ma?
Good Night
Şev xweş
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
Good Evening
Evare baş
बोडो
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
अन्धानि बार
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
Please
Bê zehmet
अननानै (Onnanwi)
Sorry
Bibûre
दु:खित
Bye
Be xêr çî
Lwrbw
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
दु:खित
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Assam, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
बड़ो (boṛo)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
French Name
kurde
bodo
German Name
Kurdisch
Bodo
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bɔɽo]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
Origin
16th century CE
1913
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
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Standard Forms
Kurdish
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Language Position
1430
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Bodo
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
br
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
brx
ISO 639 2/B
kur
brx
ISO 639 3
kur
brx
ISO 639 6
kur
brx
Glottocode
kurd1259
bodo1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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