ISO 639-3 · kurkur
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Kurdish
Zimanê Kurdî
Kurdish is a macrolanguage of the Northwestern Iranian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Armenia and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 21 m first-language speakers (2007). Wikidata describes it as “Northwestern Iranian language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
kur- ISO 639-1
ku- Glottocode
kurd1259- Family
- Indo-European
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Wikipedia
- 147 language editions
21 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
3scripts
5levels in the tree
SafeUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Kurdish · Zimanê Kurdî |
|---|---|
| Also called | Kurdi, Kurdish dialects, Kurdish languages, Kurdish |
| L1 speakers | 21,000,000 (2007) |
| Written in | Latin script, Arabic script, Cyrillic |
| Official in | Iraq |
| Grammatical cases | 3 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Kurdish
The branches above Kurdish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Iraq
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafefasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeacmMesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic · 15.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalaiiAssyrian Neo-AramaicAfroasiatic · 232,3006b · ThreatenedabkAbkhazNorth Caucasian · 190,1102 · ProvincialhacGoraniIndo-European · 40,0007 · ShiftingafbGulf ArabicAfroasiatic3 · Wider CommunicationaypNorth Mesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic6a · Vigorous