Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Namaskar
Thank You
Sipas
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Evare baş
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Bê zehmet
Chike
Sorry
Bibûre
Maf kor
Bye
Be xêr çî
Adeus
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Antruz
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Goa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
kurde
konkani
German Name
Kurdisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Kurds
Konkanis
Origin
16th century CE
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Kokani
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
kok
ISO 639 2/B
kur
kok
ISO 639 3
kur
kok
ISO 639 6
kur
kok
Glottocode
kurd1259
goan1235
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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