Kurdish language

The Kurdish language (Kurdish: Kurdî) is a Northwestern Iranic language spoken by the Kurds in an area called Kurdistan, which spans today's southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northeastern Syria.^[5] Kurdish has two main dialects and many subs dialects. The two main ones are Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurdish belongs to the same language group as the Iranian languages. Another well-known Iranian language is Persian. They are considered Indo-European languages.

Kurdish Kurdî
كوردی, Kurdî, Kurdí, Кöрди[1]
Native to	Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, Russia
Ethnicity	55-60 million Kurds
Native speakers	60 million (2021)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish Kurdî
Writing system	Kurdish Script
Official status
Official language in	Iraq: status as official language alongside Arabic.  Iran: constitutional status as a regional language  Armenia: minority language[3]  Azerbaijan: minority language in 5 districts[4]
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ku
ISO 639-2	kur
ISO 639-3	kur – inclusive code Individual codes: ckb – Sorani kmr – Kurmanji sdh – Southern Kurdish lki – Laki
Linguasphere	(North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki) + 58-AAA-b (Central Kurdish incl. Dimli/Zaza & Gurani) + 58-AAA-c (South Kurdish incl. Kurdi) + Luri dialect 58-AAA-a (North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki) + 58-AAA-b (Central Kurdish incl. Dimli/Zaza & Gurani) + 58-AAA-c (South Kurdish incl. Kurdi) + Luri dialect