Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Zambia
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Zulu language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2918
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks32 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Moni
Thank You
Sipas
Zikomo
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
Evare baş
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
M'mawa wabwino
Please
Bê zehmet
Chonde
Sorry
Bibûre
pepani
Bye
Be xêr çî
anatsanzikana
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Pepani
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Kasungu
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
kurde
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Kurdisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Chewa people
Origin
16th century CE
15th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Chewa
Language Position
1427
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
nya
ISO 639 2/B
kur
nya
ISO 639 3
kur
nya
ISO 639 6
kur
nya
Glottocode
kurd1259
nyan1308
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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