Sorani
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Sorani Kurdish or Central Kurdish (کوردیی ناوەندی/Kurdî Nawendî), also called Sorani (سۆرانی/Soranî), is a Kurdish dialect[3][4][5] or a language[6][7] that is spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Sorani is one of the two official languages of Iraq, along with Arabic, and is in administrative documents simply referred to as "Kurdish".[8][9]
| Central Kurdish / Sorani | ||
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| Kurdî Nawendî / Soranî | ||
| کوردیی ناوەندی / سۆرانی | ||
 Central Kurdish and Sorani written in the Sorani alphabet | ||
| Native to | Iran and Iraq | |
| Region | Kurdistan | |
Native speakers | 8 million (2021 estimate)[1] | |
Indo-European
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| Dialects |
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| Sorani Kurdish alphabet (Perso-Arabic script) | ||
| Official status | ||
Official language in |  Iraq Kurdistan Region[2] | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ckb | |
| Glottolog | cent1972 | |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAA-cae | |
 Geographic distribution of Kurdish and other Iranian languages spoken by Kurds
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The term Sorani, named after the former Soran Emirate, is used especially to refer to a written, standardized form of Central Kurdish written in the Sorani alphabet developed from the Arabic alphabet in the 1920s by Sa'ed Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby.[10]