Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
hallo
Thank You
Sipas
takk
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Şev xweş
god natt
Good Evening
Evare baş
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
god morgen
Please
Bê zehmet
Vær så snill
Sorry
Bibûre
unnskyld
Bye
Be xêr çî
ha det
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Sogn
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Norsk
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Norsk
French Name
kurde
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Kurdisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Kurds
Norwegians
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
1418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
nor
ISO 639 2/B
kur
nor
ISO 639 3
kur
nor
ISO 639 6
kur
nor
Glottocode
kurd1259
norw1258
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional