Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3323
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2914
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Kumno
Thank You
Sipas
Khublei
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Şev xweş
thia sukh
Good Evening
Evare baş
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
khublei
Please
Bê zehmet
Sngewbha
Sorry
Bibûre
Map
Bye
Be xêr çî
khublei
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
map a nga
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Bhoi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
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How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
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How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
kurde
khasi
German Name
Kurdisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Khasi people
Origin
16th century CE
1200 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Khasi
Language Position
1440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
kha
ISO 639 2/B
kur
kha
ISO 639 3
kur
kha
ISO 639 6
kur
kha
Glottocode
kurd1259
khas1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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