Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
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Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2928
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
kedụ
Thank You
Sipas
dalụ
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Şev xweş
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Evare baş
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Bê zehmet
Biko
Sorry
Bibûre
Ndo
Bye
Be xêr çî
Kachifo
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Enuani
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
igbo
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Ibo
French Name
kurde
igbo
German Name
Kurdisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Igbo people
Origin
16th century CE
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
kur
ibo
ISO 639 3
kur
ibo
ISO 639 6
kur
ibo
Glottocode
kurd1259
nucl1417
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative