Hawrami

E205884

Hawrami is a dialect of the Gorani branch of Kurdish, spoken primarily in the Hawraman region of western Iran and northeastern Iraq.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hawrami canonical 3
Hawramani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language variety
dialect
alternativeName Avromani
Avromani
surface form: Awromani

Hewrami
surface form: Hewramî
associatedEthnicity Kurds
associatedPeople Hawrami people
belongsToSubgroup Zaza–Gorani (in some classifications)
branchOf Kurdish
classificationDisputedBy linguists who treat Gorani as non-Kurdish Iranian
closelyRelatedTo Gorani
country Iran
Iraq
culturalRegion Zagros Mountains
dialectContinuumWith other Gorani varieties
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Kurdish
Persian language
surface form: Persian
hasMorphologicalFeatures ergative alignment in past tenses
hasPhonologicalFeatures distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Central Kurdish in many areas
language shift toward dominant Kurdish varieties
historicalUse medium of local religious and mystical poetry
ISOStatus often treated under Gorani in classifications
languageFamily Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
linguisticStatus considered by some scholars a separate language within Gorani
partOf Gorani branch of Kurdish
primaryArea Hawraman region
surface form: Hawraman-e Taht (Iraq)

Hawraman-e Takht (Iran)
region Hawraman region
surface form: Hawraman
spokenBy religious communities in Hawraman
spokenIn Hawraman region
Iran
Iraq
northeastern Iraq
western Iran
subdivisionOf Gorani
usedBy local communities in Hawraman
usedFor oral literature
religious poetry
usedIn oral storytelling
traditional songs
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Gorani hasAlternativeName Hawrami
Hewrami hasAlternativeName Hawrami
Hawrami dialect hasAlternativeName Hawrami
this entity surface form: Hawramani
Hawraman region language Hawrami