Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2919
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Bwakeye
Thank You
Sipas
Urakoze
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Evare baş
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Mwaramutse
Please
Bê zehmet
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Bibûre
Ndasubiza
Bye
Be xêr çî
N’agasaga
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Ha
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Shubi
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
kurde
rundi
German Name
Kurdisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
16th century CE
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Kirundi
Language Position
1486
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ku
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
run
ISO 639 2/B
kur
run
ISO 639 3
kur
run
ISO 639 6
kur
run
Glottocode
kurd1259
rund1242
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
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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