Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
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Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
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
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Sipas
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Bê zehmet
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Bibûre
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Be xêr çî
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Balgarski
French Name
kurde
bulgare
German Name
Kurdisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Bulgarian people
Origin
16th century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
1488
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
bul
ISO 639 2/B
kur
bul
ISO 639 3
kur
bul
ISO 639 6
kur
buls
Glottocode
kurd1259
bulg1262
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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