Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Sipas
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Evare baş
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Bê zehmet
कृपया
Sorry
Bibûre
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Be xêr çî
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Doteli
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
kurde
népalais
German Name
Kurdisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
16th century CE
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Nepali
Language Position
1459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ku
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
nep
ISO 639 2/B
kur
nep
ISO 639 3
kur
npi
ISO 639 6
kur
nep
Glottocode
kurd1259
nepa1254
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative