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Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish)
کوردی / Kurdî · Arab/Latn script, written right to left. Spoken in Western Iran: Kurdistan, Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan, Ilam, and North Khorasan.
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ku · Arab/Latn · right to left · second phase
Language · ku · Iranian, Northwestern · second phase
Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish)
کوردی / Kurdî · Arab/Latn script, written right to left. Spoken in Western Iran: Kurdistan, Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan, Ilam, and North Khorasan.
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Record
ku- Code
- ku
- Family
- Iranian, Northwestern
- Where
- Western Iran: Kurdistan, Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan, Ilam, and North Khorasan
- Phase
- second phase
- Coverage
- not yet measured
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The script page for this variety is not built yet. It is written in the Arab/Latn script, right to left.
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Resources
4 resourcesLinguistics
family, dialects, sounds and standing- Family
- Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Laki-Kurdish, then Kurdish
- Codes
- ISO 639-3 ckb, kmr, sdh · macrolanguage kur · Glottolog cent1972, nort2641, sout2640
- Dialects
- Central Kurdish: Mukri, Sine'i, Sorani (13 listed in all)
- Dialects
- Northern Kurdish: Northern Kurmanji, Southeastern Kurmanji, Southern Kurmanji, Western Kurmanji (28 listed in all)
- Dialects
- Southern Kurdish: Ilami, Lakic Southern Kurdish, Peripheral Kermanshahic (13 listed in all)
- Standing
- Central Kurdish: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
- Standing
- Northern Kurdish: threatened (6b (Threatened)) secondary
- Standing
- Southern Kurdish: threatened (6b (Threatened)) secondary
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One language or several
ISO 639-3 treats Kurdish as a macrolanguage (kur) with Northern (kmr), Central (ckb) and Southern Kurdish (sdh). Glottolog lists them as three languages in one Kurdish group. Many speakers and Kurdish institutions see one Kurdish language with several dialects.
to verify · ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Haig and Öpengin. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Kurdish Studies 2 (2).
In Iran
Sorani is spoken in Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan provinces, Southern Kurdish in Kermanshah and Ilam, and Kurmanji in West Azerbaijan and North Khorasan.
to verify · Haig and Öpengin. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Kurdish Studies 2 (2).
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- Year
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- Status
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