Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3346
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2938
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
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Ahoj
Thank You
Sipas
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Evare baş
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Dobré ráno
Please
Bê zehmet
Prosím
Sorry
Bibûre
Pardón!
Bye
Be xêr çî
Dovidenia
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
kurde
slovaque
German Name
Kurdisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Slovaks
Origin
16th century CE
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Slovak
Language Position
1427
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
slk
ISO 639 2/B
kur
slo
ISO 639 3
kur
slk
ISO 639 6
kur
slk
Glottocode
kurd1259
slov1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic