Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
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Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Farsi Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3325
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2918
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Kamusta
Thank You
Sipas
Salamat po
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
Evare baş
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Magandang umaga po
Please
Bê zehmet
pakiusap
Sorry
Bibûre
pinagsisisihan
Bye
Be xêr çî
Paálam
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Philippines
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Filipino
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Philippines
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
kurde
tagalog
German Name
Kurdisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Tagalog people
Origin
16th century CE
1593
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Filipino
Language Position
1458
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
kur
tgl
ISO 639 3
kur
tg1
ISO 639 6
kur
tgl
Glottocode
kurd1259
taga1269
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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