Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
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Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2925
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Sipas
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Bê zehmet
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
Bibûre
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Be xêr çî
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Serbia
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Montenegrin
French Name
kurde
serbe
German Name
Kurdisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Serbs
Origin
16th century CE
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Serbian
Language Position
1444
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
srp
ISO 639 2/B
kur
srp
ISO 639 3
kur
srp
ISO 639 6
kur
srp
Glottocode
kurd1259
serb1264
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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