Kurdish language

The Kurdish language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Kurds in an area called Kurdistan that today includes parts of the countries Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, with its core areas in Iran, aka the mother land country of the Kurd people .^[5] Kurdish has two main dialects and many subs dialects. The two main ones are Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurdish belongs to the same language group as the Iranian languages.

Kurdish Kurdî
كوردی, Kurdî, Kurdí, Кöрди[1]
Native to	Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, Russia
Ethnicity	28 million Kurds
Native speakers	31 million (2021)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish Kurdî
Writing system	Kurdish Script
Official status
Official language in	Iraq: status as official language alongside Arabic.  Iran: constitutional status as a regional language  Armenia: minority language[3]  Azerbaijan: minority language in 5 districts[4]
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ku
ISO 639-2	kur
ISO 639-3	kur – inclusive code Individual codes: ckb – Sorani kmr – Kurmanji sdh – Southern Kurdish lki – Laki
Linguasphere	58-AAA-a (North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki) + 58-AAA-b (Central Kurdish incl. Dimli/Zaza & Gurani) + 58-AAA-c (South Kurdish incl. Kurdi) + Luri dialect