Sorani
Dialect of the Kurdish language, spoken in Iran and Iraq / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorani Kurdish (Kurdish: کرمانجیی خواروو, Kurmancîy Xwarû),[3][4][5] also known as Central Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect[6][7][8] or a language[9][10] spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Sorani is one of the two official languages of Iraq, along with Arabic, and is in administrative documents simply referred to as "Kurdish".[11][12]
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Kurdîy Nawendî / Soranî | ||
کوردیی ناوەندی / سۆرانی | ||
Native to | Iran, Iraq | |
Region | Kurdistan | |
Ethnicity | Kurds | |
Native speakers | 5.3 million (2020–2021)[1] | |
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Official language in | Iraq Kurdistan Region[2] | |
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ISO 639-3 | ckb | |
Glottolog | cent1972 | |
Linguasphere | 58-AAA-cae | |
Geographic distribution of Kurdish and other Iranian languages spoken by Kurds
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The term Sorani, named after the Soran Emirate, is used especially to refer to a written, standardized form of Central Kurdish written in the Sorani alphabet developed from the Arabic alphabet in the 1920s by Sa'ed Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby.[13]