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Southern Kurdish
Pehlewani
پەهلەوانی، کوردی خوارگ
Native toEastern Iraq, Western Iran
Native speakers
3 million in Iran (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Bayray
  • Feyli
  • Garrusi (Bijari)
  • Kalhori
  • Kermanshahi
  • Kolyai
  • Kordali
  • Laki
  • Malekshahi
  • Sanjabi
  • Luri
Hawar alphabet, Perso-Arabic (Sorani alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3sdh
Glottologsout2640
Linguasphere58-AAA-c

Southern Kurdish (کوردی خواریگ; kurdîy xwarîg, Kalhori), also called Pehlewani[2] (پەهلەوانی; Pehlewanî) or Pahlawanik, is a Kurdish dialect predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah (Kirmaşan) and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It has more than one million speakers in the city of Baghdad. It is also the dialect of the populous Kurdish Kakayî-Kakavand tribe near Kerkuk and most Yarsani kurds in Kermanshah province. There are also populous diasporas of Pehlewani-speakers found in the Alburz mountains.

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

The extension consists of an extra vowel, "ۊ" for the Arabic-based Sorani script and "ü" for the Latin-based Kurmanji script.

IPA Latin letter Arabic letter
yː ü ۊ

Subdialects

The subdialects of Southern Kurdish are:

  • Kermanshahi (Kirmaşanî) is spoken mostly in western Iran, in and around the city of Kermanshah (Kirmaşan).
  • 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 province 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.[3]
  • Garrusi (Gerrûsî) (Bijari)
  • Malekshahi (Melikşayî)
  • Sanjâbi (Sincawî) referring to the language of Sanjâbi people. It is closely related

See also

References

  1. ^ Southern Kurdish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ http://www.kurdishacademy.org/?q=node/44
  3. ^ Vahid-e-Ranjbar, Dastur-e Zaban-e Kurdi-ye Kermanshahi. Kermanshah: Taq-Bostan. 1388
Southern Kurdish test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Additional sources

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


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