Kurdish language
| Kurdish Kurdî | |
|---|---|
| كوردی, Kurdî, Kurdí, Кöрди[1] | |
| Native to | Turkey,Iran,Iraq,Syria,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Romania,Bulgaria,Moldova,Ukraine,Serbia,Russia |
| Ethnicity | 55-60 millionKurds |
Native speakers | 60 million (2021)[2] |
Indo-European
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| Kurdish Script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Iraq:status as official language alongsideArabic. 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 codeIndividual codes: ckb–Soranikmr–Kurmanjisdh–Southern Kurdishlki–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 |
TheKurdish language(Kurdish:Kurdî) is anIndo-European languagespoken by theKurdsin an area calledKurdistan,including parts of the countriesIran,Iraq,SyriaandTurkey.[5]Kurdish has two main dialects and many subs dialects. The two main ones are Kurmanji andSorani.Kurdish belongs to the same language group as theIranian languages.Another well-known Iranian language isPersian.They are consideredIndo-European languages.
References[change|change source]
- ↑"Kurdish Language – Kurdish Academy of Language".Kurdishacademy.org.Retrieved2 December2011.
- ↑Only very rough estimates are possible. SIL Ethnologue gives estimates, broken down by dialect group, totalling 60 million, but with the caveat of "Very provisional figures for Northern Kurdish speaker population". Ethnologue estimates for dialect groups: Northern: 37 M (undated; 30 M in Turkey for 2021), Central: 8.75M (2021), Southern: 6 M (2021), Laki: 2 M (2021). Luri:5 m (2021). Zazaki: 3 m (2021). The Swedish Nationalencyklopedin listed Kurdish in its "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), citing an estimate of 20.6 million native speakers.
- ↑European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
- ↑"Kurdish, Northern".Ethnologue.
- ↑"Geographic distribution of the Kurdish language".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-10-18.Retrieved2007-06-18.
Kurdish editionofWikipedia,the free encyclopedia
Central Kurdish editionofWikipedia,the free encyclopedia
