Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Somalia
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Somali Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3334
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2924
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
akkam
Thank You
Sipas
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Evare baş
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
Bê zehmet
Maaloo
Sorry
Bibûre
naa dhiisi
Bye
Be xêr çî
Nagayattii!
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Borana
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Orma
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Kenya
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Wata
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Kenya
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
317
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
kurde
galla
German Name
Kurdisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Oromos
Origin
16th century CE
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
1491
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
orm
ISO 639 2/B
kur
orm
ISO 639 3
kur
orm
ISO 639 6
kur
orm
Glottocode
kurd1259
nucl1736
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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