Language code: ku

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ku

Technical information about ku language code (Kurdish) is available below.

ISO code

ku

Language

Official

Kurdish

Native

Kurdî

Scripts
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

8.9M

4.7M

4.3M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Kurdish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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