Sorani - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Central Kurdish | |
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Sorani Kurdish | |
کوردیی ناوەندی / سۆرانی | |
![]() Central Kurdish and Sorani written in the Sorani alphabet | |
Native to | Iran and Iraq |
Region | Kurdistan |
Native speakers | 8 million (2021 estimate)[1] |
Indo-European
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Dialects |
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Sorani Kurdish alphabet (Perso-Arabic script) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() ![]() |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ckb |
Glottolog | cent1972 |
Linguasphere | 58-AAA-cae |
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Sorani Kurdish (also known as Central Kurdish) is a variety of Kurdish spoken in Iran and Iraq. It is written in the Arabic alphabet unlike Kurmanji which is written in the Latin alphabet. There are 8 million speakers.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Sheyholislami (2021), p. 633.
- ↑ "Full Text of Iraqi Constitution". Washington Post. 12 October 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2013.