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
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
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Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
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Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2917
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
hallo
Thank You
Sipas
Dankie
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Şev xweş
goeie nag
Good Evening
Evare baş
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
goeie more
Please
Bê zehmet
asseblief
Sorry
Bibûre
jammer
Bye
Be xêr çî
Totsiens
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Namibia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Cape Dutch
French Name
kurde
afrikaans
German Name
Kurdisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Afrikaners
Origin
16th century CE
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
1423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
afr
ISO 639 2/B
kur
afr
ISO 639 3
kur
afr
ISO 639 6
kur
afrs
Glottocode
kurd1259
afri1274
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic