Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3399
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2914
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Sipas
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Evare baş
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Bê zehmet
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Bibûre
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Be xêr çî
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Sanuki
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Hakata
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Kansai
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
kansai
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
日本語
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Nihongo
French Name
kurde
japonais
German Name
Kurdisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
16th century CE
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Japanese
Language Position
148
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
kur
jpn
ISO 639 3
kur
jpn
ISO 639 6
kur
jpn
Glottocode
kurd1259
nucl1643
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic