Kurdish (Kurmanji) is spoken by about 16 million people. Northern Kurdish. Not mutually intelligible with Sorani, and written in a different script.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Kurdish (Sorani), Fuzhounese (Eastern Min Chinese) and Tajik. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Structurally, objects come before their verbs, where English puts them after.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Kurdish (Kurmanji) sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,374 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 1,169 hours of study. Read how it works.
Most apps only teach Kurdish (Kurmanji) through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.