Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Hello
Thank You
Sipas
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Evare baş
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Bê zehmet
Fadlan
Sorry
Bibûre
sorry
Bye
Be xêr çî
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
kurde
somali
German Name
Kurdisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Somalis
Origin
16th century CE
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Somali
Language Position
1483
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
som
ISO 639 2/B
kur
som
ISO 639 3
kur
som
ISO 639 6
kur
som
Glottocode
kurd1259
soma1255
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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