Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2917
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Sipas
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Evare baş
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Bê zehmet
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Bibûre
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Be xêr çî
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Greece
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Griko
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Italy
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
kurde
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Kurdisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
16th century CE
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Greek
Language Position
1474
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ell
ISO 639 2/B
kur
gre
ISO 639 3
kur
ell
ISO 639 6
kur
ells
Glottocode
kurd1259
gree1276
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic