Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India
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
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Sipas
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Şev xweş
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
Evare baş
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Bê zehmet
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Bibûre
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
Be xêr çî
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
30
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
kurde
sanskrit
German Name
Kurdisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
16th century CE
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Sanskrit
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
-
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
san
ISO 639 2/B
kur
san
ISO 639 3
kur
san
ISO 639 6
kur
san
Glottocode
kurd1259
sans1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic