Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Ukraine
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Volynian
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Steppe
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
French Name
kurde
ukrainien
German Name
Kurdisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Ukrainians
Origin
16th century CE
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Not Available
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kurd1259
ukra1253
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Kurdish and Ukrainian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Kurdish and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Ukrainian language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Kurdish and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.