Sorani

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Sorani is a central variety of the Kurdish language widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in literature, media, and education among Kurdish communities.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Sorani Kurdish 3
Kurdish (Sorani) 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kurdish language variety
language
closelyRelatedTo Kurmanji
hasAlternativeName Kirkuk dialect
surface form: Central Kurdish

Sorani
surface form: Sorani Kurdish
hasCaseSystem reduced case marking
hasDialects Arbil dialect
Kirkuk dialect
Mukriani dialect
Sulaymaniyah dialect
hasGrammarType subject–object–verb word order
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language features
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Turkish language
surface form: Turkish
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment remnants
suffixal definite marker
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony absence
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Kurdish academies in Iraq
ISO639-3 ckb
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
mutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with other Kurdish varieties
partOf Kurdish language
primaryStatusIn one of main written standards of Kurdish
region Central Kurdish-speaking area
scriptDirection right-to-left
spokenIn Iran
Iraq
Kurdistan Province (Iran)
surface form: Kurdistan Province of Iran

Kurdistan
surface form: Kurdistan Region of Iraq
standardizedIn Kurdistan
surface form: Kurdistan Region of Iraq
subdivisionOf Kurdish language
surface form: Central Kurdish
taughtAt universities in Iraqi Kurdistan
usedBy Kurdish diaspora communities
Kurdish people
usedFor Kurdish broadcasting in Iraq
Kurdish press in Iraq
usedIn administration in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
education
literature
media
uses postpositions more than prepositions
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script
surface form: Arabic-based Sorani alphabet

Referenced by (8)

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

Kurmanji closelyRelatedTo Sorani
Sorani hasAlternativeName Sorani
this entity surface form: Sorani Kurdish
Kurdistan hasLanguage Sorani
this entity surface form: Sorani Kurdish
Kurds majorDialect Sorani
Sulaymaniyah majorLanguage Sorani
this entity surface form: Sorani Kurdish
this entity surface form: Kurdish (Sorani)