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- The Kurdish language (Kurdish: Kurdî) is an Indo-European language spoken by the Kurdish people in an area called Kurdistan, including parts of the countries Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Kurdish has two main dialects and many subs dialects. The two main ones are Kurmanji and Sorani.
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e. Kurdish ( Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, [11] [12] namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria .
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May 16, 2024 · The Kurdish language, with nearly 25 million speakers, is a West Iranian language that is closely related to Persian and Pashto. The Kurds were thought to number between 36 million and 46 million in the mid-2010s. They lived primarily in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria with diasporic communities in Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union.
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© Wikipedia. There are many languages spoken in the Kurdish region. Historically, Kurdish language belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, and was developed between 4,000 and 2,000 years ago. [1] Kurdish dialects are broken into three main groups: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish. [2]
Kurdish language, a West Iranian language, one of the Indo-Iranian languages, chiefly spoken in Kurdistan. It ranks as the third largest Iranian language, after Persian and Pashto, and has numerous dialects. It is thought to be spoken by some 20–40 million people. There are three main dialect groups.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Since 1932 Kurdish has been written with the Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria. Before then, it was written with a version of the Arabic script. In parts of the former USSR it is written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was devised in 1946 by Heciyê Cindî (1908-1990), a Kurdish linguist from Armenia.