Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Silaw
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Sipas
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Bê zehmet
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Bibûre
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Be xêr çî
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Olonets
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Русский
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
German Name
Kurdisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Origin
16th century CE
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Not Available
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kurd1259
russ1263
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Kurdish and Russian Speaking population
Kurdish and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Kurdish vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Russian Language Codes
Kurdish and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.