Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Halo
Thank You
Sipas
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Şev xweş
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Evare baş
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Sugeng énjing
Please
Bê zehmet
matur nuwun
Sorry
Bibûre
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Be xêr çî
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Arekan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
kurde
javanais
German Name
Kurdisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
16th century CE
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Javanese
Language Position
1411
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
jav
ISO 639 2/B
kur
jav
ISO 639 3
kur
jav
ISO 639 6
kur
jav
Glottocode
kurd1259
java1253
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative