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Southern Kurdish
Template:Lang-ku
Native to	Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
Region	Kurdistan
Native speakers	3,000,000 in Iran, 350,000 in Turkey, Iraq
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Kurdish Southern Kurdish
Dialects	Bayray Feyli Garrusi (Bijari) Kermanshahi Kolyai Kordali Malekshahi Sanjabi Laki Kalhori Zangana Şêxbizinî
Writing system	Perso-Arabic (Sorani alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sdh
Glottolog	sout2640
Linguasphere	58-AAA-c
Geographic distribution of Kurdish and other Iranian languages spoken by Kurds   Kurmanji   Sorani   Southern   Zaza   Gorani   mixed areas

Southern Kurdish (Template:Lang-ku), also known as Kurdiy xwarîn is a Kurdish dialect predominantly spoken in Eastern Iraq and Western Iran. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah and Ilam. In Iraq, it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin, all the way to Mandali. It is also the dialect of the populous Kurdish Kakayî tribes near Kirkuk and most Yarsani Kurds in Kermanshah Province. There are also populous diasporas of Southern Kurdish-speakers found in the Alburz mountains.

Native speakers use various different alphabets to write Southern Kurdish, the most common ones are extensions of the standard Kurdish alphabets.

Dialects

The subdialects of Southern Kurdish are:

• Kermanshahi is spoken mostly in Western Iran, in and around the city of Kermanshah.
• Feyli: referring to the Feyli tribe; also known as Ilami, after Ilam Province. It is spoken in Eastern Iraq in the Khanaqin region of Diyala Governorate near the Iranian border and in Western Iran in Ilam province and parts of Kermanshah province, by the Feyli Kurds. Mahaki is a sub-dialect. It is spoken by the tribe of Ali Sherwan (Beyrey) in Ilam and by almost all Feyli Kurds in Baghdad, Mandali, Badrah and Zorbatiah in Iraq. It shares many features with Sorani.

• Garrusi
• Malekshahi
• Sanjâbi: referring to the language of the Sanjâbi tribe.
• Laki
• Kalhori referring to the Kalhor tribe.

See also

• Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi

Sources

• Kamandar Fattah, Les Dialectes kurdes méridionaux: étude linguistique et dialectologique. Louvain, Peeters, 2000, p. 55-62.

References

1. Southern Kurdish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Kurdish, Southern". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
3. "Kurdish language i. History of the Kurdish language". Iranica Online. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
4. "OLAC resources in and about the Southern Kurdish language". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
5. Vahid-e-Ranjbar, Dastur-e Zaban-e Kurdi-ye Kermanshahi. Kermanshah: Taq-Bostan. 1388

External links

• Information regarding Southern Kurdish
• Kurdish Academy of Language describing Southern Kurdish
• Audio recordings of wordlists and narratives in Southern Kurdish, archived with Kaipuleohone
• southern Kurdish Misplaced Pages

v t e Languages of Iraq
Official languages	Standard Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic (Main) Kurdish Sorani (Main) Kurmanji
Official minority languages	Neo-Aramaic Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Armenian Turkish Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialects
Other minority languages	Gorani (Hawrami) Southern Kurdish (Xwarin) Persian Mandaic Neo-Mandaic Domari Hebrew Shabaki Luri
Sign languages	Iraqi Sign Language Kurdish Sign Language

• Kurdish language
• Languages of Kurdistan