Bahdini

E751954

Bahdini is a Northern Kurdish dialect spoken primarily in parts of Turkey and Iraq.

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Label Occurrences
Bahdini canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kurdish dialect
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Badînî
Kurmanji Kurdish NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Badini NERFINISHED
Badînî NERFINISHED
Bahdinani
Bahdinî NERFINISHED
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Persian NERFINISHED
Turkish NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender distinction in pronouns
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages NERFINISHED
languageOf Bahdini Kurds NERFINISHED
mutualIntelligibility largely intelligible with other Kurmanji varieties
region Upper Tigris region
northern Mesopotamia
spokenIn Duhok Governorate NERFINISHED
Hakkari Province NERFINISHED
Iraq NERFINISHED
Iraqi Kurdistan NERFINISHED
Mardin Province NERFINISHED
Turkey NERFINISHED
Turkish Kurdistan NERFINISHED
diaspora communities
Şırnak Province NERFINISHED
standardizationStatus lacks fully standardized orthography
subdivisionOf Kurmanji NERFINISHED
Northern Kurdish NERFINISHED
usedBy Sunni Muslim Kurdish communities
usedFor everyday communication
local education in some schools
usedIn folklore
local media
music
oral literature
writingSystem Arabic script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Behdini alternativeName Bahdini