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Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî): resources and preservation

Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî) 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
Southern KurdishThreatened6b (Threatened)

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 Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî) 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 translators: translate the pages into Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî). This language gets human translation only.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Southern Kurdish.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
  • Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî): Resources and preservation. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/sdh/resources/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Southern Kurdish (Kelhurî, Feylî): Resources and Preservation.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/sdh/resources/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_language_languages_sdh_resources,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Southern {Kurdish} ({Kelhur}{\^ i}, {Feyl}{\^ i}): Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/sdh/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/sdh/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. Approaches to Corpus Creation for Low-Resource Language Technology: the Case of Southern Kurdish and Laki

    Association for Computational Linguistics 2023, Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos et al. · 2023 · Underline Science Inc.

    OtherDataCitearXivOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish

    Sara Belelli · 2022 · Springer eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

  3. Sara Belelli. “A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish”

    Shuan Osman Karim · 2023 · Abstracta Iranica

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-SA-4.0

  4. Towards a dialectology of Southern Kurdish : Where to begin?

    Sara Belelli · 2019 · Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics (BSKL)

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIREOpen access

  5. Observations on "ü" and "üe" Correspondences in Southern Kurdish

    X_name · 2026 · Zenodo

    PreprintDataCiteZenodoOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  6. Southern Kurdish film poster

    Yad Deen, Renas Babakir, Noori Issa · 2025 · The British Museum

    OtherDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

  7. On the Functions of (-ow) in Southern Kurdish

    Habib Gowhari, Forugh Asadi · 2022 · ̒Ilm-i Zabān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Southern Kurdish

    Parvaneh Rezaee · 2015 · ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA

  9. The Effect of Age and Level of Education as Extra-Linguistics Variables on Mutual Intelligibility between Central and Southern Kurdish Dialects

    Manijeh Mirmukri, Gholam-Hossein Karimi-Doostan · 2019 · پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  10. Glottolog 5.3 Resources for Southern Kurdish

    2026 · OLAC – Open Language Archives Community

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  11. Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect.

    Saeed VA, Jacksi K · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  12. II A Southern Kurdish Folksong in Kermanshahi Dialect

    E. B. Soane · 1909 · Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

    ArticleOpenAlexZenodoOpen accessCC-ZERO

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