Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks42 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Ke aal aee
Thank You
Sipas
dhanwaad
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
kiyaan oo ji
Good Night
Şev xweş
shub ratri
Good Evening
Evare baş
shub ratri
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
शुभ अपराह्न
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
su prabat
Please
Bê zehmet
kripya
Sorry
Bibûre
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Bye
Be xêr çî
changa ji pher
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
gustakhi maaf
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Jaunsari
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Kullu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00110,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Hinduri
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0030,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million4.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
डोगरी
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
French Name
kurde
dogri
German Name
Kurdisch
Dogri
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Dogras
Origin
16th century CE
1971
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Dogri
Language Position
1432
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Dogri
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
doi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
doi
ISO 639 2/B
kur
doi
ISO 639 3
kur
doi
ISO 639 6
kur
doi
Glottocode
kurd1259
indo1311
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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