Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
您好
Thank You
Sipas
谢谢
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
你好吗？
Good Night
Şev xweş
晚安
Good Evening
Evare baş
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
下午好
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
早上好
Please
Bê zehmet
请
Sorry
Bibûre
遗憾
Bye
Be xêr çî
再见
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
我爱你
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
原谅我
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
kurde
cantonais
German Name
Kurdisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Han Chinese
Origin
16th century CE
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
yue
ISO 639 2/B
kur
yue
ISO 639 3
kur
No data available
ISO 639 6
kur
yue
Glottocode
kurd1259
cant1236
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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