Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
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Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
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Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3395
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2930
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Sipas
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Evare baş
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Bê zehmet
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Bibûre
Tsip maza
Bye
Be xêr çî
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Laya
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Lunana
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Adap
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
kurde
dzongkha
German Name
Kurdisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Ngalop people
Origin
16th century CE
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Dzongkha
Language Position
1431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
kur
dzo
ISO 639 3
kur
dzo
ISO 639 6
kur
dzo
Glottocode
kurd1259
nucl1307
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
-
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