Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
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Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Farsi Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2920
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
alo
Thank You
Sipas
multumesc
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
Şev xweş
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Evare baş
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
buna Ziua
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
bună Dimineața
Please
Bê zehmet
Vă Rog
Sorry
Bibûre
scuze
Bye
Be xêr çî
La revedere
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Aromanian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Croatia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Română
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
kurde
roumain; moldave
German Name
Kurdisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Romanians
Origin
16th century CE
1521
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Romanian
Language Position
1436
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ron
ISO 639 2/B
kur
rum
ISO 639 3
kur
ron
ISO 639 6
kur
ron
Glottocode
kurd1259
roma1327
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic