Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
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Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2927
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Sipas
rakhmat
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Evare baş
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Bê zehmet
birdam
Sorry
Bibûre
kachurung
Bye
Be xêr çî
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Turpan
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Hotan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
kurde
ouïgour
German Name
Kurdisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Uyghur
Origin
16th century CE
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Uyghur
Language Position
1498
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ku
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
uig
ISO 639 2/B
kur
uig
ISO 639 3
kur
uig
ISO 639 6
kur
uig
Glottocode
kurd1259
uigh1240
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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