Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
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Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Şev xweş
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Evare baş
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
صبح به خیر
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Western Persian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
فارسی
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Kurdisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Persian people
Origin
16th century CE
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Persian
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
kurd1259
fars1254
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
Kurdish and Persian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Kurdish and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Persian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Persian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Persian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Kurdish and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.