Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
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National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2939
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
dobry dzień
Thank You
Sipas
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Dabranač
Good Evening
Evare baş
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Dobraj ranicy
Please
Bê zehmet
Kali laska
Sorry
Bibûre
Vybačajcie
Bye
Be xêr çî
da pabačennia
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
kurde
biélorusse
German Name
Kurdisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Belarusians
Origin
16th century CE
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Belarusian
Language Position
1479
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bel
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bel
ISO 639 3
kur
bel
ISO 639 6
kur
bel
Glottocode
kurd1259
bela1254
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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