Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
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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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3347
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2922
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
pranam
Thank You
Sipas
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Evare baş
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Suprabhaat
Please
Bê zehmet
kripaya
Sorry
Bibûre
maf karai
Bye
Be xêr çî
Alavidā
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
kripaya
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
North India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Khortha
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
kurde
maithili
German Name
Kurdisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Maithil
Origin
16th century CE
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Maithili
Language Position
1440
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mai
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mai
ISO 639 3
kur
mai
ISO 639 6
kur
mai
Glottocode
kurd1259
mait1250
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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