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Kurdish
Kurdish

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Countries

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

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-

Alphabets

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.31 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

21.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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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)

History

Origin

16th century CE
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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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

Code

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

Kurdish and Japanese Alphabets

Kurdish and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kurdish and Japanese. In Kurdish Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Kurdish and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kurdish and Japanese languages. The Kurdish phonology consist Kurdish vowels and Kurdish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kurdish greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kurdish and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kurdish and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kurdish and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Kurdish and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kurdish are spoken in different Kurdish Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kurdish vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kurdish and Japanese Speaking population

Kurdish and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kurdish and Japanese on Kurdish vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kurdish and Japanese Language Codes

Kurdish and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.