Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2941
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Sipas
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Evare baş
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Bê zehmet
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Bibûre
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Be xêr çî
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Mappila
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
kurde
malayalam
German Name
Kurdisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Malayali
Origin
16th century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early form
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Malayalam
Language Position
1429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mal
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mal
ISO 639 3
kur
mal
ISO 639 6
kur
mal
Glottocode
kurd1259
mala1464
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic