Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2922
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Sipas
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Evare baş
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Bê zehmet
будь ласк
Sorry
Bibûre
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Be xêr çî
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Podillian
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Volynian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Steppe
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
kurde
ukrainien
German Name
Kurdisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Ukrainians
Origin
16th century CE
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
1426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
kur
ukr
ISO 639 3
kur
ukr
ISO 639 6
kur
ukr
Glottocode
kurd1259
ukra1253
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic