- ISO 639
ku- Its own name
- kurdî (kurmancî)
- Script
- Latin
- Direction
- Left to right
Kurdish
Kurdish (kurdî (kurmancî)) is spoken by 12.2M people across 10 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 0 of them. Türkiye holds 38% of its speakers.
Reach summary
What one translation into Kurdish covers, across every market that speaks it.
Speakers
12.2M
Türkiye 38% · Iraq 34% · Syria 16%
First and second language speakers, summed across the 10 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.
Online speakers
9.5M
0%100%
78% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.
Concentration
38%
0%100%
Türkiye, the largest single territory, holds 38% of speakers. Spread out enough that regional wording and currency will come up.
Territories
10
0 where it is official nationally, 0 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.
Reachable GDP
$10.8T
Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.
Translation rate
1.00×
1.0×1.6×+
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate used across this site's estimators.
Where Kurdish is spoken
Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.
| Territory | Share of that market | Speakers | Online | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TürkiyeTR | 5.5% | 4.6M | 4.2M | minority or diaspora |
| IraqIQ | 10% | 4.2M | 3.4M | minority or diaspora |
| SyriaSY | 8% | 1.9M | 644.7K | minority or diaspora |
| GermanyDE | 0.7% | 555.2K | 519.1K | minority or diaspora |
| IranIR | 0.6% | 495K | 422.4K | minority or diaspora |
| ArmeniaAM | 6.6% | 196.5K | 159.8K | minority or diaspora |
| LebanonLB | 1.7% | 91.2K | 73.5K | minority or diaspora |
| AzerbaijanAZ | 0.5% | 51.1K | 46.4K | minority or diaspora |
| GeorgiaGE | 0.9% | 43.6K | 36.6K | minority or diaspora |
| TurkmenistanTM | 0.4% | 23K | 4.1K | minority or diaspora |
CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.
What it takes to ship
The work that is not translation.
Writing system
Latin
Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Platform default fonts cover this script.
Plural categories
2
Every counted message needs up to 2 arms, and the translator needs all of them.
Rate index
1.00×
Prices at the mainstream per-word rate.
Engineering note. CLDR resolves ku → ku-Latn. The Arabic-script RTL variety is Sorani (ckb).