Kurdish is a Indo-Aryan leid that's speakers is tae be fund in the Northwast o Iran, the north o Iraq an the Sootheast o Turkey. It's sib wi the Persie leid.
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Kurdish leids |
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Kurdî, کوردی |
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Native tae | Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Sirie, Armenie, Azerbaijan, Georgie |
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Region | Kurdistan, Anatolie, Khorasan |
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Ethnicity | Kurds |
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Native speakers | c. 20–30 million (2000–2010 est.)[1] |
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Dialects |
- Kurmanji
- Sorani
- Southern Kurdish (Palewani, Xwarig/Xwarîn)
- Laki[2]
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| Hawar alphabet (Laitin script; uised mostly in Turkey an Sirie) Sorani alphabet (Perso-Arabic script; uised maistly in Iraq an Iran) Cyrillic alphabet (umwhile Soviet Union) Armenie alphabet (1921-29 in Soviet Armenie)[3][4][5] |
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Offeecial status |
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Offeecial leid in | Iraq[6] Template:Kintra data Kurdistan Region[7] Rojava[8][9] |
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Recognised minority leid in | |
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Leid codes |
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ISO 639-1 | ku |
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ISO 639-2 | kur |
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ISO 639-3 | kur – inclusive code Individual codes:
ckb – Sorani
kmr – Kurmanji
sdh – Soothren Kurdish
lki – Laki leid |
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Glottolog | kurd1259 [14] |
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Linguasphere | 58-AAA-a (North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki) + 58-AAA-b (Central Kurdish incl. Dimli/Zaza & Gurani) + 58-AAA-c (Sooth Kurdish incl. Kurdi) |
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Map o Kurdish-speakin auries o the Middle East |
Geografic distribution o Kurdish an ither Iranian leids spoken bi Kurds
Kurmanji
Sorani
Soothren
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Gorani
mixed auries
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Anerly verra rough estimates are possible.
SIL Ethnologue gies estimates, braken doun bi dialect group, totallin 31 million, but wi the caveat o "Very provisional figures for Northern Kurdish speaker population". Ethnologue estimates for dialect groups:
Northren: 20.2M (undatit; 15M in Turkey for 2009),
Central: 6.75M (2009),
Soothren: 3M (2000),
Laki: 1M (2000).
The Swedish Nationalencyklopedin leetit Kurdish in its "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), citin an estimate o 20.6 million native speakers.
MacCagg, William O.; Silver, Brian D., eds. (1979). Soviet Asian Ethnic Frontiers. Pergamon Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780080246376. Since the most active Soviet Kurdish center has been and continues to be Yerevan, the first alphabet used for publishing Kurdish in the USSR was the Armenian alphabet.
Курдский язык (in Roushien). Krugosvet. ...в Армении на основе русского алфавита с 1946 (с 1921 на основе армянской графики, с 1929 на основе латиницы).
Khamoyan, M. (1986). "Քրդերեն [Kurdish language]". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 12 (in Armenian). p. 492. ...գրկ. լույս է տեսնում 1921-ից հայկ., 1929-ից՝ լատ., 1946-ից՝ ռուս. այբուբենով...
Pavlenko, Aneta (2008). Multilingualism in post-Soviet countries. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. pp. 18–22. ISBN 978-1-84769-087-6.
"Təhsil" (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 6 Mey 2019.
Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kurdish". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.