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Countries

Countries

Iraq, Kurdistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Middle East
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
  • In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Farsi Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

810
0 32
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How Many Consonants

299
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

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

4 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Silaw
hallo

Thank You

Sipas
Danke

How Are You?

Tu çawa yî?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Şev xweş
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Evare baş
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Nee-wa-rowt bash
guten Tag

Good Morning

Bayanit bash
guten Morgen

Please

Bê zehmet
bitte

Sorry

Bibûre
Verzeihung

Bye

Be xêr çî
Tschüs

I Love You

Ez te hez dikem
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Bê zehmet
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Kurdish
Swiss German

Where They Speak

northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Central Kurdish
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Germany

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Southern Kurdish
Texas German

Where They Speak

Eastern Iraq
Texas

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.31 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

21.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Kurdî, کوردی‎
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

kurde
allemand

German Name

Kurdisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Kurds
Germans

History

Origin

16th century CE
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Kurdish
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

149
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kurdish Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ku
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kur
deu

ISO 639 2/B

kur
ger

ISO 639 3

kur
deu

ISO 639 6

kur
deus

Glottocode

kurd1259
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

58-AAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Kurdish and German Alphabets

Kurdish and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kurdish and German. In Kurdish Alphabets there are 33 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Kurdish and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kurdish and German languages. The Kurdish phonology consist Kurdish vowels and Kurdish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kurdish greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kurdish and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kurdish and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kurdish and German dialects. Various dialects of Kurdish and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kurdish are spoken in different Kurdish Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kurdish vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kurdish and German Speaking population

Kurdish and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and German languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kurdish and German on Kurdish vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kurdish and German Language Codes

Kurdish and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.