Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Xin chào
Thank You
Sipas
Cam on
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
Evare baş
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Chào buổi sáng
Please
Bê zehmet
xin vui lòng
Sorry
Bibûre
Xin lỗi
Bye
Be xêr çî
Tạm biệt
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
kurde
vietnamien
German Name
Kurdisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Kurds
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1440
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
1414
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
vie
ISO 639 2/B
kur
vie
ISO 639 3
kur
vie
ISO 639 6
kur
vie
Glottocode
kurd1259
viet1252
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating