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Southern Kurdish

variety of Kurdish comprising several dialects of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in the south of Kurdistan (in upper Mesopotamia, to the west of Iran and east of Iraq)
Class type of: Kurdish language Q1496597

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[4]
Country
Iran, Iraq[2][3]
Subclass of
Kurdish language[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 36.191°, 44.009°
Ethnologue language status
6a Vigorous[17]
Indigenous to
Baghdad Governorate, Maysan Governorate, Wasit Governorate, Ilam Province, Khuzestan Province, Kermanshah Province, Lorestan Province, Hamadan Province[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+3000000[8]
Writing system
Arabic alphabet, Arabic script[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Southern Kurdish ar كردية جنوبية ar كردي خوارين ar لهجة فيلية ar فيلي ar الكردية الخوارينية (الكردية الجنوبية) cs Jihokurdština da sydkurdisk de südkurdische Sprache de Südkurdisch el Νότια Κουρδικά fa کردی خوارین (کردی جنوبی) fr kurde du Sud he כורדית דרומית id bahasa Kurdi Selatan id Kurdi Selatan it lingua curda meridionale ja 南部クルド語 ko 팔레와니어 nl Zuid-Koerdisch
🔖 Identifiers · 11
GND ID
4539940-2
Dewey Decimal Classification
491.597
Ethnologue.com language code
sdh
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/04lqhk
Glottolog code
sout2640
IETF language tag
sdh
ISO 639-3 code
sdh
Lingua Libre ID
Baljevac
POSIX locale identifier
sdh
Topic's main category
Category:Southern Kurdish language

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 10
Iran, Iraq, Khuzestan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province, Hamadan Province, Lorestan Province, Baghdad Governorate +2 more
Indigenous to 8
Khuzestan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province, Hamadan Province, Lorestan Province, Baghdad Governorate, Wasit Governorate, Maysan Governorate
Country 2
Iran, Iraq
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Subtypes 2
Kelhuri, Kordali
Writing system 2
Arabic alphabet, Arabic script
Belongs to 1
Kurdish language
Lingua Libre ID 1
Baljevac
Subclass of 1
Kurdish language
Topic's main category 1
Category:Southern Kurdish language
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Articles containing Southern Kurdish-language text
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Southern Kurdish language
← Dialect of 1
Kelhuri
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Summary

Southern Kurdish is a language[1].

Related Entities

Iran Iraq

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Yug · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Indigenous to → Baghdad Governorate, Maysan Governorate, Wasit Governorate +5
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+3000000'}
    Country → Iran, Iraq
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