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.
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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 1 Classification
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Source Kurdish language, Wikipedia
Source Kurdish language, Wikipedia
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.
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Source Wikipedia: KurdsLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 3Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, romanized: Kurd), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranic ethnic group from West Asia.
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Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis ( ; Êzidî), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in West Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, with small numbers living in Armenia and Georgia.
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Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی, pronounced [kʊrdiː] ) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in southeast Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest Iran, and northern Syria.
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1. Kurdish language, Wikipedia
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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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Iraq
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Indo-Iranian
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Western
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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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