Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2946
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Mhoro
Thank You
Sipas
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Şev xweş
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Evare baş
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Masikati
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Mangwanani
Please
Bê zehmet
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Bibûre
Ndineurombo
Bye
Be xêr çî
bye
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Hwesa
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Karanga
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
chiShona
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
kurde
shona
German Name
Kurdisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Shona people
Origin
16th century CE
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Shona
Language Position
14107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
sna
ISO 639 2/B
kur
sna
ISO 639 3
kur
sna
ISO 639 6
kur
sna
Glottocode
kurd1259
core1255
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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