Hawrami dialect

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The Hawrami dialect is a Northwestern Iranian variety spoken by the Hawrami people in parts of Iran and Iraq, noted for its archaic features and association with the Gorani literary tradition.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Eshtehardi dialect 1
Hawrami dialect canonical 1
Hawrami language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
Northwestern Iranian language variety
dialect
associatedWith Gorani literary tradition
closelyRelatedTo Gorani
Zazaki
considered part of Gorani in some classifications
culturalAssociation Hawraman cultural heritage
Yarsan religious communities
distinctFrom Central Kurdish (Sorani)
surface form: Central Kurdish

Kurmanji
Sorani
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Avromani
Avromani
surface form: Awromani

Hawrami
surface form: Hawramani

Hewrami
Horami
hasDomain local religious practices
oral tradition
hasFeature archaic morphology
archaic phonology
conservative vocabulary
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past tenses
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich vowel system
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
hasWritingSystem Perso-Arabic script
influencedBy Kurdish languages
Persian language
surface form: Persian
ISO639Status no individual ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
region Halabja Governorate
Hawraman region
Kermanshah Province
Kurdistan Province (Iran)
surface form: Kurdistan Province
spokenBy Hawrami people
spokenByMinority true
spokenIn Iran
Iraq
subclassOf Gorani
surface form: Gorani language

Western Iranian languages
Zaza–Gorani languages
usedAs marker of Hawrami ethnic identity
usedIn classical Gorani literature
religious poetry

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Gorani hasDialect Hawrami dialect
Northwestern Iranian languages hasMajorSubgroup Hawrami dialect
this entity surface form: Hawrami language
Tati language hasDialect Hawrami dialect
this entity surface form: Eshtehardi dialect