Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2923
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Sipas
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Evare baş
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Bê zehmet
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Bibûre
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Be xêr çî
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Mandarin
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Wu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Yue
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
kurde
chinois
German Name
Kurdisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Han
Origin
16th century CE
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Chinese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
zho
ISO 639 2/B
kur
chi
ISO 639 3
kur
zho
ISO 639 6
kur
zho
Glottocode
kurd1259
sini1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating