Ilami

E659421

Ilami is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in and around the city of Ilam in western Iran.

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Label Occurrences
Ilami canonical 1

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional variety of Southern Kurdish
closelyRelatedTo Kermanshahi Kurdish NERFINISHED
Laki NERFINISHED
country Iran
hasDialectContinuumWith other Southern Kurdish varieties
hasFeature ergative alignment in past tenses (shared with Kurdish varieties)
influencedBy Arabic
Persian NERFINISHED
ISO639Status not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Southern Kurdish)
languageBranch Northwest Iranian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Kurdish
linguisticTypology agglutinative morphology
subject–object–verb word order
minorityLanguageIn Iran NERFINISHED
primaryRegion city of Ilam and surrounding areas
region Zagros Mountains area NERFINISHED
script Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED
sharesVocabularyWith other Kurdish dialects
spokenBy Kurds of Ilam region
spokenIn Ilam NERFINISHED
Ilam Province NERFINISHED
western Iran NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Southern Kurdish NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition and folklore
uses postpositions
writingSystem Arabic script with Persian modifications

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