Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
-
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2925
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
bok
Thank You
Sipas
hvala
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
kako si
Good Night
Şev xweş
laku noć
Good Evening
Evare baş
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
dobar dan
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
dobro jutro
Please
Bê zehmet
molim
Sorry
Bibûre
Oprostite
Bye
Be xêr çî
Doviđenja
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Volim te
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Chakavian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Croatia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Croatia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
379
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Hrvatski
French Name
kurde
croate
German Name
Kurdisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Croats
Origin
16th century CE
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
1423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
kur
hrv
ISO 639 3
kur
hrv
ISO 639 6
kur
hrv
Glottocode
kurd1259
croa1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic