Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
-
Academy of the Hebrew Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3322
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
80
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2922
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Sipas
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
Şev xweş
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
Evare baş
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Bê zehmet
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Bibûre
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Be xêr çî
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Israel
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Israel
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
kurde
hébreu
German Name
Kurdisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
16th century CE
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
-
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
heb
ISO 639 2/B
kur
heb
ISO 639 3
kur
heb
ISO 639 6
kur
heb
Glottocode
kurd1259
hebr1246
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic