Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
New Zealand
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
New Zealand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Australia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Māori Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Tahitian Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3320
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2910
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Hello
Thank You
Sipas
Mauruuru koutou
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
E pēhea ana koe ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Night pai
Good Evening
Evare baş
pai ahiahi
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Afternoon pai
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Morning pai
Please
Bê zehmet
Tēnā
Sorry
Bibûre
Aroha mai
Bye
Be xêr çî
poroporoaki
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Aroha ahau ki a koe
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
tukua ahau
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
South Island Māori
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00150,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Western North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Eastern North Island Maori
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
New Zealand
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.18 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.18 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
te Reo Māori
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
New Zealand Maori
French Name
kurde
maori
German Name
Kurdisch
Maori-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈmaɔɾi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Māori people
Origin
16th century CE
1814
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Polynesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Maori
Language Position
1426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Maori Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
mi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mri
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mao
ISO 639 3
kur
mri
ISO 639 6
kur
mri
Glottocode
kurd1259
maor1246
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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