Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2943
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Molo
Thank You
Sipas
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Unjani
Good Night
Şev xweş
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Evare baş
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Molo
Please
Bê zehmet
Ndicela
Sorry
Bibûre
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Be xêr çî
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Thembu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
South Africa
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
kurde
xhosa
German Name
Kurdisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Kurds
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
16th century CE
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
isiXhosa
Language Position
1421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
xho
ISO 639 2/B
kur
xho
ISO 639 3
kur
xho
ISO 639 6
kur
xho
Glottocode
kurd1259
xhos1239
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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