Countries
India, Pakistan
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Middle East
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4029
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Silaw
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Sipas
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Şev xweş
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Bayanit bash
Please
براہ مہربانی
Bê zehmet
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Bibûre
Bye
الوداع
Be xêr çî
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
India
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
India
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
South Asia
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bihari
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
ourdou
kurde
German Name
Urdu
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Kurds
Origin
12th Century CE
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Kurdish
Language Position
2014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ur
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
kur
ISO 639 2/B
urd
kur
ISO 639 3
urd
kur
ISO 639 6
urd
kur
Glottocode
urdu1245
kurd1259
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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