Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Dagbani Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2916
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
Kia ora
Thank You
Sipas
Laafi bala
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
Evare baş
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Kia ora
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Ne y yibeogo
Please
Bê zehmet
gafare
Sorry
Bibûre
gafare
Bye
Be xêr çî
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Saremde
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Taolende
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Mosse
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
kurde
moré
German Name
Kurdisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Mossi
Origin
16th century CE
11th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Mossi
Language Position
1437
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
mos
ISO 639 2/B
kur
mos
ISO 639 3
kur
mos
ISO 639 6
kur
mos
Glottocode
kurd1259
moss1236
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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