Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3351
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2935
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Namaskara
Thank You
Sipas
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Şev xweş
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Evare baş
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
yedde kaande
Please
Bê zehmet
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Bibûre
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Be xêr çî
Barpe
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Jain
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Girijan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Tulu
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
kurde
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German Name
Kurdisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Tuluva
Origin
16th century CE
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Tulu
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
kur
tul
ISO 639 3
kur
tcy
ISO 639 6
kur
tcy
Glottocode
kurd1259
tulu1258
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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