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Language code: kur

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kur

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The table below provides technical details for the Kurdish language, designated by the kur code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kur

Name

Official

Kurdish

Native

Kurdî

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish)Sorani (Central Kurdish)Pehlewani (Southern Kurdish)
Related languages
Persian (Farsi)BalochiLuriZazakiGorani
Key facts
Member of the Western Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian familyWritten in several scripts including Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabetsExhibits split-ergative alignment—ergative in past tenses, nominative-accusative in presentNouns show grammatical gender and case inflectionVerbal system is rich in aspect and modal prefixes and suffixes
Sample phrase

Silav, tu çawa yî?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Kurdish language, identified by the code kur, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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