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Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish languages constitutes a dialect continuum, many of which are not mutually intelligible, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
Ludwig Paul concludes that Kurdish seems to be a Northwestern Iranian language in origin, but acknowledges that it shares many traits with Southwestern Iranian languages like Persian, apparently due to longstanding and intense historical contacts. Windfuhr identified Kurdish dialects as Parthian, albeit with a Median substratum.
Language codes. ISO 639-3. phv. Glottolog. pahl1240. Pahlavani is an extinct variety of Persian that was spoken in Afghanistan .
Native speakers of Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family make up 78% of the population of Iran. [9] The largest Iranian-speaking peoples of Iran are the Persians, Kurds, Lurs, Gilaks, Mazanderanis, Talysh and Balochis. Iranian languages in Iran included Persian, Luri, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazanderani, and Balochi. [10]
Bashkardi language. Southern Bashkardi or Bashagerdi, or simply "Bashkardi", and also known as southern " Bashaka ", is a Southwestern Iranian language [2] [3] spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. The language is closely related to Garmsiri, Larestani and Kumzari.
A separate group of non-Kurdish Northwestern Iranian languages, the Zaza–Gorani languages, are also spoken by several million ethnic Kurds. [16] [17] [18] The classification of Laki as a dialect of Southern Kurdish or as a fourth language under Kurdish is a matter of debate, [2] but the differences between Laki and other Southern Kurdish ...
