Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2930
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Sipas
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Evare baş
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Bê zehmet
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Bibûre
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Be xêr çî
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kurde
tibétain
German Name
Kurdisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Kurds
tibetan people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1429
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ku
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bod
ISO 639 2/B
kur
tib
ISO 639 3
kur
bod
ISO 639 6
kur
bod
Glottocode
kurd1259
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-