Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Munda Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Henda ho
Thank You
Sipas
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Evare baş
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Boge Setak’
Please
Bê zehmet
দয়া করে
Sorry
Bibûre
দুঃখিত
Bye
Be xêr çî
Hariau
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Mahali
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not present
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
kurde
santal
German Name
Kurdisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
16th century CE
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Santali
Language Position
1441
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
sat
ISO 639 2/B
kur
sat
ISO 639 3
kur
sat
ISO 639 6
kur
sat
Glottocode
kurd1259
sant1410
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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