Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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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Pan South African Language Board
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Farsi Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3357
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2950
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
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Silaw
Sawubona
Thank You
Sipas
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
unjani
Good Night
Şev xweş
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Evare baş
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Bê zehmet
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Bibûre
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Be xêr çî
bye
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Qwabe
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.31 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
21.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
20.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
kurde
zoulou
German Name
Kurdisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Kurds
Zulu people
Origin
16th century CE
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Deep Zulu
Language Position
1487
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ku
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kur
zul
ISO 639 2/B
kur
zul
ISO 639 3
kur
zul
ISO 639 6
kur
zul
Glottocode
kurd1259
zulu1248
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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