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Sorani (Central Kurdish)
کوردیی ناوەندی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kurdistan province of Iran.
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Sorani (Central Kurdish)
کوردیی ناوەندی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kurdistan province of Iran.
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ckb- Code
- ckb
- Family
- Iranian, Northwestern, Kurdish
- Where
- The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kurdistan province of Iran
- Phase
- at launch
- Coverage
- not yet measured
Courses that teach it
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1 scriptIts own names
Scripts
- Kurdish Arabic-based alphabet (ڕ ڵ ۆ ێ ە); ه/ە normalisation; official in the Kurdistan Region
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Resources
4 resourcesLinguistics
family, dialects, sounds and standing- Family
- Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Central Iranian PBS, then Central Iranian PB, then Northwestern Iranian, then Laki-Kurdish, then Kurdish
- Codes
- ISO 639-3 ckb · macrolanguage kur · Glottolog cent1972
- Dialects
- Central Kurdish: Mukri, Sine'i, Sorani (13 listed in all)
- Standing
- Central Kurdish: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
- Sounds
- 31 consonants and 8 vowels, after McCarus 1997 · the inventory verified
b d̪ d̠ʒ f ɡ ɣ h ħ j k l̪ ɫ̪ m n̪ ŋ p q r̪ ɾ̪ s̪ sˤ ʃ t̪ t̠ʃ v w x z̪ ʒ ʔ ʕ äː eː ə iː oː uː ɯ̽ ʊ
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Grammar in short
- Word order is usually subject, object, verb.
- Nouns have no grammatical gender and no case.
- The suffix -eke makes a noun definite, as in kitêbeke, the book.
- Pronoun clitics attach to words and mark the subject in the past tense of transitive verbs.
- The ezafe -î links a noun to the words that describe it.
to verify · Thackston. Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings.
Dialect or language
ISO 639-3 gives Central Kurdish its own code (ckb) inside the Kurdish macrolanguage. Many speakers and Kurdish institutions call Sorani a dialect of one Kurdish language.
to verify · ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.; Haig and Öpengin. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Kurdish Studies 2 (2).
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