Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel, Mauritius
Regulated By
-
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Konkani Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
Thank You
Sipas
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
Good Evening
Evare baş
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
Please
Bê zehmet
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Bibûre
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
Bye
Be xêr çî
बाय (Bāya)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Maharashtrian Konkani
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Kokan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Varhadi
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Vidarbha
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Khandeshi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Khandesh
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
342
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million71.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %1.10 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million68.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
मराठी (marāṭhī)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
French Name
kurde
marathe
German Name
Kurdisch
Marathi
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Marathi people
Origin
16th century CE
10th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Maharashtri Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Marathi
Language Position
1417
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
mr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mar
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mar
ISO 639 3
kur
mar
ISO 639 6
kur
mar
Glottocode
kurd1259
mara1378
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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-