Northern Kurdish

E744313

Iranian language variety Kurdish dialect Western Iranian language variety

Northern Kurdish is a major dialect group of the Kurdish language, spoken primarily in southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and parts of Iran.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Northern Kurdish canonical	5
Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iranian language variety ⓘ Kurdish dialect ⓘ Western Iranian language variety ⓘ
alternativeName	Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurmanji Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ
approximateSpeakers	more than 15 million ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Central Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Kurdish NERFINISHED ⓘ Zazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottocode	nort2641 ⓘ
hasCases	true ⓘ
hasDialect	Central Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Kurmanji NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGrammaticalGender	true ⓘ
hasLatinAlphabetStandard	Hawar alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish ⓘ
ISO639-3	kmr ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
majorDialectOf	Kurdish ⓘ
partOf	Kurdish language NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryCountry	Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Caucasus ⓘ diaspora communities in Europe ⓘ northern Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Syria ⓘ northwestern Iran ⓘ southeastern Turkey ⓘ
scriptUsage	Arabic-based script in Iraq and Iran ⓘ Latin script in Turkey and Syria ⓘ
SOVWordOrder	true ⓘ
spokenBy	Kurds NERFINISHED ⓘ
standardVarietyIn	Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Northwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInMedia	Kurdish satellite television ⓘ
usedInReligion	Yazidi religious texts NERFINISHED ⓘ
usesErgativeAlignment	partially ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

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

Badînî → partOf → Northern Kurdish ⓘ

Badînî → dialectOf → Northern Kurdish ⓘ

Hawar alphabet → languageVariety → Northern Kurdish ⓘ

Behdini → subdivisionOf → Northern Kurdish ⓘ

Hewrami → isDistinctFrom → Northern Kurdish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Hekari → languageBranch → Northern Kurdish ⓘ