Countries
Countries
Wales
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
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Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
English Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
British Language
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Helô
Silaw
Thank You
Diolch
Sipas
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Nos da
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Bore da
Bayanit bash
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bibûre
Bye
Hwyl
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Bê zehmet
Dialects
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Argentina
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
38,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
700,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Powys
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
700,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.70 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
gallois
kurde
German Name
Kymrisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Kurds
History
Origin
9th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Brythonic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Welsh
Kurdish
Language Position
3114
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
cy
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
kur
ISO 639 2/B
wel
kur
ISO 639 3
cym
kur
ISO 639 6
cym
kur
Glottocode
wels1247
kurd1259
Linguasphere
50-ABA
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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