Language Info

Kurdish written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Alternate Scripts for Kurdish

  • Kurdish can also be written using the Arabic script
  • Kurdish can also be written using the Cyrillic script

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Kurdish uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Kurdish is 6,610,868 people across 7 countries.

Turkey

4,446,486 people
5.50% literate in Kurdish

Syria

1,442,280 people
8.00% literate in Kurdish

Germany

531,920 people
0.66% literate in Kurdish

Armenia

100,491 people
3.30% literate in Kurdish

Georgia

43,844 people

Azerbaijan

23,907 people

Turkmenistan

21,940 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters