Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2936
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Sipas
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Şev xweş
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Evare baş
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Bê zehmet
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Bibûre
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Be xêr çî
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Vedda
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.31 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
kurde
singhalais
German Name
Kurdisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Sinhalese people
Origin
16th century CE
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kur
sin
ISO 639 3
kur
sin
ISO 639 6
kur
sin
Glottocode
kurd1259
sinh1246
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional