Kurdish is spoken by approximately 33 million people across Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. As part of the Indo-European family, Kurdish is written in different scripts depending on the dialect, with Kurmanji primarily using the Latin alphabet and Sorani employing a modified Perso-Arabic script. With an agglutinative structure and an SOV word order, Kurdish has a strong literary tradition, including epic poetry and historical chronicles. Despite historical suppression in some regions, Kurdish remains a key marker of cultural identity, with efforts to standardize and promote its use in education and media. (The Kurmanji/Northern Kurdish variety of Kurdish was used as a grammatical reference).
Stats
Language Family: Indo-European
Writing System: Latin, Perso-Arabic (Modified) (Sorani)
Writing System Type: Alphabet (Latin), Almost a complete alphabet (Perso-Arabic)
Writing Direction: L to R (Latin), R to L (Perso-Arabic)
Tones / Pitch Accent: None
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: None
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: None
Number of Verb Tenses: 5
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8
Number of Consonants: 40
Areas Where Spoken
Iran (~10%) (9 mil)
Iraq (~15%) (7 mil)
Syria (~9%) (2 mil)
Turkey (~17.6%) (15 mil)