Southern Kurdish

E169403

Iranian language Kurdish language variety Northwest Iranian language Western Iranian language language

Southern Kurdish is a major variety of the Kurdish language spoken primarily in parts of western Iran and eastern Iraq, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Southern Kurdish canonical	4
Kurdish, Southern	1
Southern Kurdi	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iranian language ⓘ Kurdish language variety ⓘ Northwest Iranian language ⓘ Western Iranian language ⓘ language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Central Kurdish (Sorani) ⓘ Kurdish language ⓘ surface form: Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
hasAlternativeName	Southern Kurdish ⓘ surface form: Kurdish, Southern Southern Kurdish ⓘ surface form: Southern Kurdi Xwarînî (in some local usage) ⓘ
hasDialect	Bayrayi ⓘ Feyli ⓘ Ilami ⓘ Kalhori ⓘ Kermanshah ⓘ surface form: Kermanshahi Laki (often classified with Southern Kurdish by some linguists) ⓘ Malekshahi ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature	loanwords from Arabic ⓘ many unique lexical items not shared with other Kurdish varieties ⓘ strong influence from Persian ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	distinct vowel system compared to Sorani and Kurmanji ⓘ preservation of some archaic Iranian phonemes ⓘ
hasStatus	minority language in Iran ⓘ minority language in Iraq ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin script (non-standard, occasional use) ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith	partially mutually intelligible with Central Kurdish ⓘ partially mutually intelligible with Northern Kurdish ⓘ
ISO639-3	sdh ⓘ
languageBranch	Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ
partOf	Kurdish language continuum ⓘ
region	Baghdad (Feyli Kurdish communities) ⓘ Diyala Governorate ⓘ Ilam Province ⓘ Kermanshah Province ⓘ Lorestan Province ⓘ surface form: Lorestan Province (parts) Wasit Governorate ⓘ
spokenBy	Kurds ⓘ surface form: Kurdish people Kurds ⓘ surface form: Southern Kurds
spokenIn	Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ
spokenPrimarilyIn	Eastern Iraq ⓘ surface form: eastern Iraq western Iran ⓘ
subdivisionOf	Kurdish ⓘ
usedIn	folk music ⓘ local media (radio, TV, online) ⓘ oral literature ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kurdish language → hasDialect → Southern Kurdish ⓘ

Kurmanji → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Kurdish ⓘ

Southern Kurdish → hasAlternativeName → Southern Kurdish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kurdish, Southern

Southern Kurdish → hasAlternativeName → Southern Kurdish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Kurdi

Hewrami → isDistinctFrom → Southern Kurdish ⓘ

Western Iranian languages → hasSubdivision → Southern Kurdish ⓘ