Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Czech Republic
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, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
-
Institute of the Czech Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3342
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
832
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2932
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
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
ahoj
Thank You
Sipas
děkuji
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Jak se máš?
Good Night
Şev xweş
dobrou noc
Good Evening
Evare baş
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
dobré ráno
Please
Bê zehmet
prosím
Sorry
Bibûre
litovat
Bye
Be xêr çî
sbohem
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
promiňte
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Chod
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Lach
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Moravian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
kurde
tchèque
German Name
Kurdisch
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Czechs
Origin
16th century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Czech
Language Position
1473
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ces
ISO 639 2/B
kur
cze
ISO 639 3
kur
ces
ISO 639 6
kur
ces
Glottocode
kurd1259
czec1258
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic