Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2933
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Sipas
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Evare baş
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Bê zehmet
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Bibûre
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Be xêr çî
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Khariboli
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Marwari
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
kurde
hindi
German Name
Kurdisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Hindustani people
Origin
16th century CE
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Hindi
Language Position
145
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
hin
ISO 639 2/B
kur
hin
ISO 639 3
kur
hin
ISO 639 6
kur
hins
Glottocode
kurd1259
hind1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic