Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
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University of Sarajevo
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2925
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Zdravo
Thank You
Sipas
Hvala
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kako si?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Laku noc
Good Evening
Evare baş
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Dobar dan
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Dobro jutro
Please
Bê zehmet
molim vas
Sorry
Bibûre
Oprostite
Bye
Be xêr çî
Zbogom
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Volim te
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Croatia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Croatia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
kurde
bosniaque
German Name
Kurdisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bosniaks
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
Bosnian
Language Position
1424
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bos
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bos
ISO 639 3
kur
bos
ISO 639 6
kur
boss
Glottocode
kurd1259
bosn1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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