Kurmanji
Sign in to saveKurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
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Kurmanji, also known as Northern Kurdish, is the most widely spoken form of the Kurdish language and is used primarily across a large region that includes parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Caucasus. It matters as a major language of communication for millions of Kurdish speakers across the Middle East and surrounding areas.
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- Language.name
- Kurmanji
- Language.altname
- Northern Kurdish
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.region
- Autochthonous to Kurdistan, Kurdish diaspora
- Language.state
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey
- Language.ethnicity
- Kurds
- Language.speakers
- million
- Language.date
- 2017–2024
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Iranian
- Language.fam4
- Western
- Language.fam5
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11 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-modern Kurmanji
- Phonology
- Dialect continuum
- Ezdîkî and Yazidi politics
- Kurmanji among other groups
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
Kurmanji is also the common and ceremonial language of Yazidis. Their sacred book Mishefa Reş and all prayers are written and spoken in Kurmanji.
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