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Southern Kurmanji, spoken in Al-Hasakah Governorate in the east of Syrian Kurdistan, Sinjar District (Şingal) in the west of Iraqi Kurdistan, and in several adjacent parts of the south of Turkish Kurdistan, centered on the Mardin (Mêrdîn) and Batman (Êlih) provinces.
The main varieties of Kurdish are Kurmanji, Sorani, and Southern Kurdish (Xwarîn). The majority of the Kurds speak Kurmanji, [15] and most Kurdish texts are written in Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurmanji is written in the Hawar alphabet, a derivation of the Latin script, and Sorani is written in the Sorani alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script.
Southern Kurdish (Kurdish: کوردی باشووری, romanized: Kurdî Başûrî) [2] is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran. [3] The Southern Kurdish-speaking region spans from Khanaqin in Iraq to Dehloran southward and Asadabad eastward in Iran.
Northern group (the Kurmanji dialect group) Central group (part of the Sorani dialect group) Southern group (part of the Xwarin dialect group) including Laki; The Zaza and Gorani are ethnic Kurds, [55] but the Zaza–Gorani languages are not classified as Kurdish. [56]
A 2005 study genetically examined three different groups of Zaza (n= 27) and Kurmanji speakers in Turkey and Kurmanji speakers in Georgia. In the study, mtDNA HV1 sequences, eleven Y chromosome bi-allelic markers and 9 Y-STR loci were analyzed to investigate lineage relationship among these Iranian-speaking groups.
Soane, Ely Banister (1922), "Notes on the Phonology of Southern Kurmanji", The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2, Cambridge University Press Thackston, W.M. (2006a), —Sorani Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings (PDF) , archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2021 , retrieved 29 ...
Kurd Mountain is known locally as Çiyayê Kurmênc meaning “Mountain of the Kurmanj” after the name of the spoken dialect in the region called Kurmanji, which is one of the Kurdish language dialects. [1] map of the Ottoman Vilayet of Aleppo showing Kurd Dagh under name of كرد طاغى, Kurd Dağ.
The original one was founded in January 2004. As of February 2025, the Kurmanji Wikipedia has 90,501 articles and Sorani Wikipedia has 74,105 articles. [1] There are also two other Wikipedia editions for Zazaki and Southern Kurdish with the latter still in the test phase.