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History. Current status. Phonology. Grammar. Writing system. See also. Notes. References. External links. Kurdish language. 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.
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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.
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Kurdish Language. © 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]
Dec 15, 2008 · INTRODUCTION. Any attempt to study or describe the history of the Kurdish (Kd.) language (s) faces the problem that, from Old and Middle Iranian times, no predecessors of the Kurdish language are yet known; the extant Kurdish texts may be traced back to no earlier than the 16th century CE.
