Countries
India
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Munda Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
Silaw
Thank You
Adi Johar
Sipas
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Bayanit bash
Please
দয়া করে
Bê zehmet
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Bibûre
Bye
Hariau
Be xêr çî
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Mahali
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
India
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
-
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
-
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
santal
kurde
German Name
Santali
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Kurds
Origin
20th century
16th century CE
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Santali
Kurdish
Language Position
4114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
kur
ISO 639 2/B
sat
kur
ISO 639 3
sat
kur
ISO 639 6
sat
kur
Glottocode
sant1410
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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