BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
084 / 101Central Kurdish
کوردیی ناوەندیAt BFSU, Central Kurdish is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Iraq, Iran
- NATIVE NAME
- کوردیی ناوەندی
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Arabic script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Central Kurdish connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Central Kurdish is spoken across 5 countries and territories.
No. 61 of 101 languages · No. 31 by territory count
Europe
01Germany
Central Asia
02ArmeniaAzerbaijan
Middle East & North Africa
02TürkiyeSyria
From daily conversation in Iraq and Iran to education, literature and media, Central Kurdish carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Central Kurdish within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Arabic script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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