Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2924
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Ħello
Thank You
Sipas
Grazzi
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Kif int?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Evare baş
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Bê zehmet
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Bibûre
Skużani!
Bye
Be xêr çî
Ċaw
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Qormi
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Malta
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Malta
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not Present
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Malti
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Malti
French Name
kurde
maltais
German Name
Kurdisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Maltese
Origin
16th century CE
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Maltese
Language Position
1425
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mlt
ISO 639 3
kur
mlt
ISO 639 6
kur
mlt
Glottocode
kurd1259
malt1254
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic