Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2931
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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
Selam
Thank You
Sipas
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Evare baş
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Bê zehmet
i'bakwon
Sorry
Bibûre
aznallehu
Bye
Be xêr çî
tschao
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Gondar
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Gondar
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Showa
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
kurde
amharique
German Name
Kurdisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Amharas
Origin
16th century CE
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Amharic
Language Position
1455
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
amh
ISO 639 2/B
kur
amh
ISO 639 3
kur
amh
ISO 639 6
kur
amh
Glottocode
kurd1259
amha1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional