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Kurmanji
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kurmancî, Northern Kurdish, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurmanji Kurdish
Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
Kurmanji, also known as Northern Kurdish, is the most widely spoken form of the Kurdish language and is used primarily across a large region that includes parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Caucasus. It matters as a major language of communication for millions of Kurdish speakers across the Middle East and surrounding areas.
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Kurmanji
- Language.altname
- Northern Kurdish
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.region
- Autochthonous to Kurdistan, Kurdish diaspora
- Language.state
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey
- Language.ethnicity
- Kurds
- Language.speakers
- million
- Language.date
- 2017–2024
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Iranian
- Language.fam4
- Western
- Language.fam5
- Northwestern
- Language.fam6
- Kurdish
- Language.iso1
- ku
- Language.iso3
- kmr
- Language.lingua
- 58-AAA-a
- Language.glotto
- nort2641
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Kurdish
- Country
- Syria
- Image
- Kurmanji Kurdish.svg
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- indigenous to
- Armavir Province
- has grammatical gender
- masculine
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 14600000
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- dialect of
- Kurdish
- topic's main category
- Category:Kurmanji language
- Wikimedia language code
- ku
- native label
- Kurmancî
- Commons category
- Kurmanji language
- P10369
- Tiger Williams
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-modern Kurmanji
- Phonology
- Dialect continuum
- Ezdîkî and Yazidi politics
- Kurmanji among other groups
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
Kurmanji is also the common and ceremonial language of Yazidis. Their sacred book Mishefa Reş and all prayers are written and spoken in Kurmanji.
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