Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2933
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Sipas
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Evare baş
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Bê zehmet
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Bibûre
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Be xêr çî
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Arakanese
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Intha
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Burma
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
kurde
birman
German Name
Kurdisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bamar people
Origin
16th century CE
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Burmese
Language Position
1443
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mya
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bur
ISO 639 3
kur
mya
ISO 639 6
kur
mya
Glottocode
kurd1259
sout3159
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating