Countries
Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute of the Estonian Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2918
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Silaw
Tere
Thank You
Sipas
aitäh
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Şev xweş
Head ööd
Good Evening
Evare baş
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Tere hommikust
Please
Bê zehmet
Palun
Sorry
Bibûre
Vabandust
Bye
Be xêr çî
Head aega
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Vabandage
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Tartu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Eesti keel
French Name
kurde
estonien
German Name
Kurdisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Estonians
History
Origin
16th century CE
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Estonian
Language Position
1422
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ku
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
est
ISO 639 2/B
kur
est
ISO 639 3
kur
est
ISO 639 6
kur
est
Glottocode
kurd1259
esto1258
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative