Southern Kurdish
| Southern Kurdish |
| Kurdí Xuwarig |
| Spoken in |
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran |
| Region |
Main in Western Iran, Kermanshah, Ilam Province, eastern Kurdistan Province, western Hamedan province, Qazvin province, southern kurds diaspora in Tehran province, Alborz province; Eastern Iraq border with those provinces including Xanaqin, Kifri, Mandali, Qorwaq and Baghdad. |
| Native speakers |
About 6,000,000[1] in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere. (date missing) |
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| Language codes |
| ISO 639-3 |
sdh |
| Linguasphere |
58-AAA-c |
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Southern Kurdish Area
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Southern Kurdish (Southern Kurdish: Kurdí Xuwarig), also called Kermānšāhi, belongs to the Northwestern Iranian languages and is predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah (Kermānšān) and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It is also the language of the populous Kurdish Kakayî tribe near Kerkuk and the Zengenes near Kifrî. There are also populous diasporas of Southern Kurdish Dialects group found in the Alburz mountains. Its dialects are Kolyaî, Kermanshahi (Kermānšānî), Kalhuri, Garrusi (Gerrûsî) (Bijari), Sanjâbi (Sencabî), Malekshahi (Melikşay), Beyrey or Mahaki (which is a sub-dialect of Feyli) and Feyli (ilami). It had around 3 million speakers in Iran in 2000.[2][3][4]
Southern Kurdish dialects, such as Laki, are spoken in Iran in the provinces of Lorestan, Hamedan, Ilam, and kermanshah. Southern dialects standard written form is like standard Persian and have not been adequately studied.[5]
See also
External links
References
- ^ Ethnologue: Kurdish, Southern
- ^ Ethnologue: Languages of Iran
- ^ Ethnologue: Languages of Iraq
- ^ Ranjbar, Vahid. Dastur-e Zaban-e Kurdi-ye Kermanshahi. Kermanshah: Taq-Bostan. 1388
- ^ Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index By Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach
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