Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
-
Turkish Language Association
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Merhaba
Thank You
Sipas
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Şev xweş
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Evare baş
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
günaydın
Please
Bê zehmet
lütfen
Sorry
Bibûre
üzgünüm
Bye
Be xêr çî
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
kurde
turc
German Name
Kurdisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Turkish
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
1419
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
tur
ISO 639 2/B
kur
tur
ISO 639 3
kur
tur
ISO 639 6
kur
tur
Glottocode
kurd1259
nucl1301
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic