Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
-
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Sveiki
Thank You
Sipas
Ačiū
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Labanakt
Good Evening
Evare baş
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Laba diena
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Labas rytas
Please
Bê zehmet
Prašom
Sorry
Bibûre
atsiprašau
Bye
Be xêr çî
Ate
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Samogitian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Curonian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
kurde
lituanien
German Name
Kurdisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Lithuanians
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Lithuanian
Language Position
1444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
lit
ISO 639 2/B
kur
lit
ISO 639 3
kur
lit
ISO 639 6
kur
lit
Glottocode
kurd1259
lith1251
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic