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    Sorani Kurdish (Kurdish: کرمانجیی خواروو, Kurmancîy Xwarû), also known as Central Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect or a language that is spoken in Iraq,...
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    Indo-European language family. The main three dialects or languages of Kurdish are Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), Central Kurdish (Sorani), and Southern Kurdish (Xwarîn)...
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    Southern Kurdish (Sorani Kurdish: کوردی باشووری ,کوردی خوارین, romanized: Kurdî Başûrî, Kurdî Xwarîn) is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken...
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    to Bedirxan's alphabet to make it more user-friendly. Many Kurdish varieties, mainly Sorani, are written using a modified Persian alphabet with 33 letters...
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    two Wikipedia editions which are written in two forms of Kurdish language; Kurmanji and Sorani. The original one was founded in January 2004. As of April...
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    Kurdistan Region (KRI; Sorani Kurdish: هەرێمی کوردستان, romanized: Herêmî Kurdistan; Kurmanji Kurdish: Herêma Kurdistanê; Arabic: إقليم كردستان) is an...
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    to Sorani or not. Many speakers of Gorani in Iran also speak Sorani, Persian, as well as Southern Kurdish. Most speakers in Iraq also speak Sorani, while...
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  • descriptions of ergativity in Kurdish, as well as in specific forms of Kurdish, such as Sorani and Kurmanjî. Kurmanjî and Sorani Kurdish have a split-ergative...
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    languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in each of the Six main languages: Zaza, Gorani, Kurmanji, Sorani, Laki and Southern Kurdish. Balül was a...
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  • ʊ uː ɛ eː oː ɑː/ are the only phonemes present in all three Kurdish languages. In Sorani, /a/ is realized as [æ], except before /w/ where it becomes mid-centralized...
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