Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Haiti
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Haiti
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Central America, North America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Cuba
Regulated By
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Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
Similar To
Farsi Language
French Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Bonjou
Thank You
Sipas
Mèsi
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kijan ou yé?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Bon nwit
Good Evening
Evare baş
Bonswa
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Bon apre-midi
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Bon apre-midi
Please
Bê zehmet
Souple
Sorry
Bibûre
Dezole
Bye
Be xêr çî
Babay
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Mwen renmen w
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Eskize m
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Cayes
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0012,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million9.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million9.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Kreyòl ayisyen
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
French Name
kurde
haïtien; créole haïtien
German Name
Kurdisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[kɣejɔl]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Haitians
Origin
16th century CE
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Haitian Creole
Language Position
1499
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ht
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
hat
ISO 639 2/B
kur
hat
ISO 639 3
kur
hat
ISO 639 6
kur
hat
Glottocode
kurd1259
hait1244
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
51-AAC-cb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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