Kurdish language facts for kids

Kurdish
	كوردی, Kurdî, Kurdí, Кöрди
Native to	Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Ethnicity	25–30 million Kurds
Native speakers	21 million (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Kurdish; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Perso-Arabic (Sorani alphabet) in Iraq and Iran, Latin (Hawar alphabet) in Turkey, Syria and Armenia
Official status
Official language in	Iraq: status as official language alongside Arabic.; Iran: constitutional status as a regional language; Armenia: minority language
Linguasphere	58-AAA-a (North Kurdish incl. Kurmanji & Kurmanjiki) + 58-AAA-b (Central Kurdish incl. Dimli/Zaza & Gurani) + 58-AAA-c (South Kurdish incl. Kurdi)
	Map of Kurdish speaking areas of middle-East

The Kurdish language is a language mostly spoken in an area called Kurdistan, including by Kurdish people in parts of the countries Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

The dialect of Piranshahr and Mahabad is Mukriani.

It belongs to the same language group as the Iranian languages. Another well-known Iranian language is Persian. It is considered an Indo-European language.

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