Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Abkhazia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
82
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2960
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Sipas
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Bê zehmet
амритана
Sorry
Bibûre
Амарахь
Bye
Be xêr çî
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
-
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Bzyb
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Sadz
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Turkey
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
kurde
abkhaze
German Name
Kurdisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Abkhaz people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Abkhaz
Language Position
1428
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
abk
ISO 639 2/B
kur
abk
ISO 639 3
kur
abk
ISO 639 6
kur
abks
Glottocode
kurd1259
abkh1244
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative