Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
Not Available
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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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
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)
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
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Wu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Yue
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
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French Name
kurde
chinois
German Name
Kurdisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
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Origin
16th century CE
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
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Early Forms
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No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Chinese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
kurd1259
sini1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Kurdish and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Kurdish and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Chinese language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Chinese Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Kurdish and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.