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 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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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)
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?
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
👆🏻
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
Origin
16th century CE
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
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
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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