Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Wales
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
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Welsh Language Commissioner
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Farsi Language
English Language
Derived From
-
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2921
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Helô
Thank You
Sipas
Diolch
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Nos da
Good Evening
Evare baş
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
P'nawn da
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Bore da
Please
Bê zehmet
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
Bibûre
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
Be xêr çî
Hwyl
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Argentina
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Powys
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Cymraeg
French Name
kurde
gallois
German Name
Kurdisch
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Welsh people
Origin
16th century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Celtic
Branch
-
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Welsh
Language Position
1431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
cym
ISO 639 2/B
kur
wel
ISO 639 3
kur
cym
ISO 639 6
kur
cym
Glottocode
kurd1259
wels1247
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional