how to pronounce kurdish

/ˈkɜːɹdɪʃ/

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kurdish is pronounced in two syllables

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ɜː

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An example use of kurdish in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… buried next to a Kurdish or Turkish …”

meanings of kurdish

adjective:

Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

noun:

Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

kurdish frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word kurdish occurs in english on average 5.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.