Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
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Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2926
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Sipas
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Bê zehmet
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Bibûre
жал (žal)
Bye
Be xêr çî
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Torlakian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Debar
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
328
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
kurde
macédonien
German Name
Kurdisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Macedonians
Origin
16th century CE
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Macedonian
Language Position
1445
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mac
ISO 639 3
kur
mkd
ISO 639 6
kur
mkd
Glottocode
kurd1259
mace1250
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic