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Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish): resources and preservation

Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

کوردی / Kurdî

01Directory

Each entry names its authority. A date shows when its link was checked; entries without one are to verify.

Media entries are public broadcasters of different states. A listing is not an endorsement. Media under international sanctions are not listed.

02Endangerment

EntryStatusBasis
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verify
Central KurdishNot endangered1 (National)
Northern KurdishThreatened6b (Threatened)
Southern KurdishThreatened6b (Threatened)

Sources UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source

03Documentation

No documentation project for Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) is recorded here yet. These archives hold recordings and studies of the region’s languages.

04Contribute

Share a source, a recording or a correction.

  • Native reviewers: read the Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) pages and mark them reviewed.
  • Teachers and authors: help write the first Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) course.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
  • Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish): Resources and preservation. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ku/resources/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish): Resources and Preservation.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ku/resources/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_ku_resources,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish ({Sorani}, {Kurmanji}, {Southern} {Kurdish}): Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ku/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ku/resources/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Next word prediction based on the N-gram model for Kurdish Sorani and Kurmanji

    Hozan K. Hamarashid, Soran A. Saeed, Tarik Ahmed Rashid · 2020 · Neural Computing and Applications

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. Can Linguistic Distance help Language Classification? Assessing Hawrami-Zaza and Kurmanji-Sorani

    Hossein Hassani · 2021 · arXiv

    PreprintDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. KASET – Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish Speech and Transcripts

    Dana Delgado, Kevin Walker, Stephanie Strassel et al. · 2024 · Linguistic Data Consortium

    DatasetDataCite

  4. Mabast dataset for Sorani Kurdish dialect semantic text classification.

    Hasan IE, Al-Atroshi SJA · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  5. Calibrating Kurmanji and Sorani

    Michael L. Chyet · 2018 · Routledge Handbook on the Kurds

    ChapterCrossref

  6. A descriptive and comparative study of adverb construction in Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji) and English.

    Ahmad Ahmadyan · 2025 · Biannual Journal of the Kurdish Language & Literature Studies

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  7. Adyan: automated annotating named entity recognition dataset for sorani kurdish language.

    Wahid CH, Nabi RM · 2025 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  8. Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect.

    Saeed VA, Jacksi K · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  9. Making Kurdish Visible: Digital Language Practices, Identity, and Belonging among Kurdish Youth in Türkiye

    mehmet sirin filiz, ziyattin YILDIRIMÇAKAR, Naif Ergün · 2026 · Zenodo

    DatasetZenodoCC-BY-4.0

  10. Polysemy of Particle in Kurdish Language

    Bayan Mala Hamadameen, Talib Husen Ali · 2023 · Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  11. Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison

    Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Shahin Salavati · 2013

    ArticleOpenAlex

  12. Supplementary Data for "Language Attitudes and Perceptual Recognition in a Context of Non-State Standardization: Evidence from Kurmanji Kurdish"

    ziyattin YILDIRIMÇAKAR · 2026 · Zenodo

    DatasetZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

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