Language code: `ku`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ku

The table below provides technical details for the Kurdish language, designated by the ku code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code	`ku`
Name	Official Kurdish Native Kurdî
Family	Iranian
Scripts
Text direction	Right-to-Left
Plural rules
Supported in Localizely

Kurdish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Iranian subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Iraq and is primarily used in the Kurdistan and Rojava regions. It is also spoken by minority groups in Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. Kurdish is written using the Latin script (Hawar alphabet) and the Perso-Arabic script (Sorani alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 25 million Kurdish speakers worldwide.