Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3338
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2932
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
412
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
Sipas
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Bê zehmet
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
Bibûre
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
Be xêr çî
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
kurde
arménien
German Name
Kurdisch
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Armenians
Origin
16th century CE
late 5th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
1414
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Armenian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
hye
ISO 639 2/B
kur
arm
ISO 639 3
kur
hye
ISO 639 6
kur
hye
Glottocode
kurd1259
arme1241
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic