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Sorani (Central Kurdish): resources and preservation

Sorani (Central Kurdish) dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

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01Directory

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Media entries are public broadcasters of different states. A listing is not an endorsement. Media under international sanctions are not listed.

02Endangerment

EntryStatusBasis
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verify
Central KurdishNot endangered1 (National)

Sources UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source

03Documentation

No documentation project for Sorani (Central Kurdish) is recorded here yet. These archives hold recordings and studies of the region’s languages.

04Contribute

Share a source, a recording or a correction.

  • Native reviewers: read the Sorani (Central Kurdish) pages and mark them reviewed.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Sorani A1, Sorani A2 to B1, Sorani B2 to C1.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Sorani (Central Kurdish): Resources and preservation. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/ckb/resources/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Sorani (Central Kurdish): Resources and Preservation.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/ckb/resources/.

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@misc{kco2026_language_languages_ckb_resources,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Sorani ({Central} {Kurdish}): Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/ckb/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/ckb/resources/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology

    Sina Ahmadi · 2021 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpenAIREOpen access

  2. Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) Text Corpus

    Tarik A. Rashid, Qais kakl, Abdulhady Abdulla et al. · 2026 · Mendeley Data

    DatasetDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  3. Mabast dataset for Sorani Kurdish dialect semantic text classification.

    Hasan IE, Al-Atroshi SJA · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  4. Kurdish Poetry from the perspective of the criteria of textuality, Kurdish poetry texts of Central Kurdish dialect as an example

    Nawzad Waqas SAHID, Rebwar Muhammed ISMAIL · 2019 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  5. Sorani Kurdish Read Speech Corpus for Rhythmic Analysis

    Akar Ahmed Saeed · 2026

    PreprintOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  6. Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis

    Sina Ahmadi · 2021 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  7. Discourse Particles in Sorani Kurdish

    Zanko RADNİA · 2022 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  8. AsoSoft/Kurdish-G2P-dataset: Central Kurdish G2P dataset

    Aso Mahmudi · 2020 · Zenodo

    SoftwareZenodoOpen accessother-open

  9. Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties

    Sina Ahmadi, Daban Q. Jaff, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam et al. · 2024 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  10. Redefinition of Compounding in Sorani Kurdish Morphology: An Investigation on Nominal Compounds in Construction Morphology Approach

    kourosh karimi, Arezoo Najafian, Razieh Mahdi-Beyraghdar et al. · 2024 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  11. Idiom Detection in Sorani Kurdish Texts

    Skala Kamaran Omer, Hossein Hassani · 2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

    PreprintOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  12. Sorani Kurdish: The basics

    Faruk Akkuş, David Embick, Mohammed A. Salih · 2025 · Case and the Syntax of Argument Indexation

    ChapterCrossref

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