Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
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Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2916
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Hoy
Thank You
Sipas
Salamat
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
Evare baş
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Maayong Buntag
Please
Bê zehmet
Palihug
Sorry
Bibûre
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Be xêr çî
Babay
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Boholano
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bohol
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
North Kana
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Visayan
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
kurde
cebuano
German Name
Kurdisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Cebuano people
Origin
16th century CE
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
1462
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
kur
ceb
ISO 639 3
kur
ceb
ISO 639 6
kur
ceb
Glottocode
kurd1259
cebu1242
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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