Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2940
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Silaw
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Sipas
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Şev xweş
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Evare baş
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Bê zehmet
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
Bibûre
معاف کرنا
Bye
Be xêr çî
الوداع
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Dakhini
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
India
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
India
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
South Asia
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bihari
French Name
kurde
ourdou
German Name
Kurdisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
16th century CE
12th Century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
1420
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
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ISO 639 2/B
kur
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ISO 639 3
kur
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ISO 639 6
kur
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Glottocode
kurd1259
urdu1245
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional