Kurmanji

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Kurmanji (Kurdish: Kurmancî) is the major Kurdish dialect spoken in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, the ex-Soviet states and by Kurds living in Central Asia. It is spoken by vast majority of Kurdish speakers. It is the only dialect spoken in all four parts of Kurdistan.

Kurmanji dialect which uses the Latin Script^[1] is the most common dialect of the Kurdish language and spoken by 80% of all Kurds. The Latin script in which Kurdish is written in Kurdistan of Turkey and Syria, as well as in exile communities in Europe and the United States of America, Canada and Australia is based on Jaladet Bedirkhan's (Celadet Bedirxan) alphabet.

Most of Kurdish literature of Medieval centuries is in this dialect.

The term Kurmanji or Kurdmanj itself is believed by scholars to mean Median Kurd ^[2] .

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^ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9046467/Kurdish-language
^ E.B. Soane, Grammar of the Kurmanji or Kurdish Language, Part I, p 5, London 1913

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