Kurdish is a Northwestern Iranian language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by Kurds across the region of Kurdistan, namely southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, and northern Syria, with additional speaker communities in northeastern Iran and parts of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountAggregate figure for the Kurdish languages across Kurdistan and the diaspora, cited in the Wikipedia infobox for 2017-2024. RegionKurdistan: southeast Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest Iran and northern Syria 2 Connections
Written In
Kurdish is biscriptal: the Sorani dialect is standardly written in a Perso-Arabic-based script.
Kurdish is biscriptal: the Kurmanji dialect is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.
Sources
1. Kurdish languages, Wikipedia
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Infobox, Native speakers field
29 million (2017-2024)
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is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan
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spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in southeast Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest Iran, and northern Syria.
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