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Kurdish
Kurdish

Mongolian
Mongolian



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Countries

Countries

Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Mongolia

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China, Mongolia

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)

Interesting Facts

  • The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
  • In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  • Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
  • There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.

Similar To

Farsi Language
Turkish Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3335
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

813
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2920
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

4 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Silaw
Сайн уу (Sain uu)

Thank You

Sipas
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)

How Are You?

Tu çawa yî?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)

Good Night

Şev xweş
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)

Good Evening

Evare baş
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)

Good Afternoon

Nee-wa-rowt bash
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)

Good Morning

Bayanit bash
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)

Please

Bê zehmet
Хэрэв (Kherev)

Sorry

Bibûre
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)

Bye

Be xêr çî
Баяртай (Bayartai)

I Love You

Ez te hez dikem
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)

Excuse Me

Bê zehmet
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Kurdish
Khalkha Mongolian

Where They Speak

northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Central Kurdish
Ordos Mongolian

Where They Speak

Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00123,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Southern Kurdish
Khorchin Mongolian

Where They Speak

Eastern Iraq
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.005,700,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

38
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million5.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.31 %0.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

21.00 million5.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

20.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)

Alternative Names

Kurdî, کوردی‎
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat

French Name

kurde
mongol

German Name

Kurdisch
Mongolisch

Pronunciation

[kʊɾdɪʃ]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/

Ethnicity

Kurds
Mongols

History

Origin

16th century CE
1224-1225

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Mongolic family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Mongolian

Branch

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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian

Standard Forms

Kurdish
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian

Language Position

1426
1 120
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Signed Forms

Kurdish Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ku
mn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kur
mon

ISO 639 2/B

kur
mon

ISO 639 3

kur
mon

ISO 639 6

kur
mon

Glottocode

kurd1259
mong1331

Linguasphere

58-AAA-a
part of 44-BAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Kurdish and Mongolian Alphabets

Kurdish and Mongolian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Kurdish and Mongolian. In Kurdish Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Mongolian Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Kurdish and Mongolian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Kurdish and Mongolian languages. The Kurdish phonology consist Kurdish vowels and Kurdish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Kurdish greetings vs Mongolian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Kurdish and Mongolian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Kurdish and Mongolian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kurdish and Mongolian dialects. Various dialects of Kurdish and Mongolian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kurdish are spoken in different Kurdish Speaking Countries whereas Mongolian Dialects are spoken in different Mongolian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kurdish vs Mongolian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish. Mongolian dialects include: Khalkha Mongolian , Ordos Mongolian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Kurdish and Mongolian Speaking population

Kurdish and Mongolian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Mongolian languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Mongolian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mongolian language is 0.14 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kurdish and Mongolian on Kurdish vs Mongolian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kurdish and Mongolian Language Codes

Kurdish and Mongolian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Mongolian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.