Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2932
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
sannu
Thank You
Sipas
gode ku
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
yaya dai
Good Night
Şev xweş
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
Evare baş
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
barka da rana
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
mai kyau safe
Please
Bê zehmet
Don Allah
Sorry
Bibûre
yi hakuri
Bye
Be xêr çî
sai anjima
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Gaananci
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Ghana
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Niger
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Niger
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.52 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million35.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
kurde
haoussa
German Name
Kurdisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
16th century CE
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Hausa
Language Position
1434
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
hau
ISO 639 2/B
kur
hau
ISO 639 3
kur
hau
ISO 639 6
kur
hau
Glottocode
kurd1259
haus1257
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional