Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Thailand
Regulated By
-
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2924
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Hai
Thank You
Sipas
terima kasih
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Evare baş
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Selamat pagi
Please
Bê zehmet
sila
Sorry
Bibûre
maaf
Bye
Be xêr çî
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Pekal
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Musi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
324
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
kurde
malais
German Name
Kurdisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Malaysian people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
1454
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
msa
ISO 639 2/B
kur
may
ISO 639 3
kur
zsm
ISO 639 6
kur
may
Glottocode
kurd1259
stan1306
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative