Kurmanji

Also 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.

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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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Contents

History
Pre-modern Kurmanji
Phonology
Dialect continuum
Ezdîkî and Yazidi politics
Kurmanji among other groups
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

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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