Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
-
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3325
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2920
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
42
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Halo
Thank You
Sipas
Hvala
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kako se imate?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Lahko noč
Good Evening
Evare baş
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Dober dan
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Dobro jutro
Please
Bê zehmet
Prosim
Sorry
Bibûre
Oprostite
Bye
Be xêr çî
Nasvidenje
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Resian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Italy
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Styrian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
348
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
kurde
slovène
German Name
Kurdisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Slovenes
Origin
16th century CE
972-1093
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Slovene
Language Position
1428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
slv
ISO 639 2/B
kur
slv
ISO 639 3
kur
slv
ISO 639 6
kur
slv
Glottocode
kurd1259
slov1268
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional