Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2913
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
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Moi
Thank You
Sipas
Kiitos
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Şev xweş
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Evare baş
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Bê zehmet
haluta
Sorry
Bibûre
Anteeksi
Bye
Be xêr çî
Heippa
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Finland
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Rauma
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Suomi
French Name
kurde
finnois
German Name
Kurdisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
ethnic Finns
Origin
16th century CE
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Kurdish
standard Finnish
Language Position
1422
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
fin
ISO 639 2/B
kur
fin
ISO 639 3
kur
fin
ISO 639 6
kur
fin
Glottocode
kurd1259
finn1318
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
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic