Gorani
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group of Northwestern Iranian dialects, variety of Zaza–Gorani languages spoken by Kurds
Key facts
- Native to
- Iraq and Iran
- Region
- Kurdistan (Primarily Hawraman , also Garmian and Nineveh ), Kermanshah province
- Native speakers
- 300,000 (2008)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Adharic / Zaza–Gorani Gorani
- Dialects
- Hawraman-I Luhon , Hawraman-I Taxt , Kakai , Gawhara , Kandula , Zardayana , Shabaki , Ṣārlī , Bāǰalāni (Bēǰwān) , Gawrajuyi
- Writing system
- Kurdish alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- Variously:, hac – Gorani (Gurani), sdb – Shabaki , sdf – Sarli , bjm – Bajelani
- Glottolog
- gura1251
- Elp
- Gurani Bajelani
- Linguasphere
- 58-AAA-b
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Zaza–Gorani languages
- Country
- Iraq
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- topic's main category
- Category:Gorani language
- different from
- Gorani people
- writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 40000
- indigenous to
- Kermanshah Province
- Commons category
- Gorani language
- has grammatical gender
- masculine
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Encyclopedic overview
Gorani (Hawrami) is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Gorani or Gurani (Kurdish: گۆرانی, romanized: Goranî, lit. 'song'), also known by the name of its main dialect, Hawrami (ھەورامی, romanized: Hewramî), is a Northwestern Iranian language or a group of similar Northwestern Iranian dialects spoken in small pockets in northeastern Iraq and northwestern Iran.
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