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ISO 639-3 · ckbckb
Indo-European family
Central Kurdish
کوردیی ناوەندی
Central Kurdish is a language of the Northwestern Iranian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Iran and Iraq. Wikidata counts about 7.2 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Kurdish language spoken in Iraq and Iran”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
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cent1972- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- Centre point
- 36.10, 45.60
- Wikipedia
- 57 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
3scripts
5levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Central Kurdish · کوردیی ناوەندی |
|---|---|
| Also called | Soranî, Central Kurdish, Sorani Kurdish, Kurdish (Sorani), Sorani dialect |
| All speakers | 7,250,000 |
| Written in | Arabic script, Kurdish alphabets, Kurdish Arabic alphabet |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Central Kurdish
The branches above Central Kurdish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Iran
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafefasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafepesIranian PersianIndo-European · 52.8 m1 · NationalpusPashtoIndo-European · 50 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeacmMesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic · 15.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationazbSouth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalpbtSouthern PashtoIndo-European · 10.9 m1 · NationaltukTurkmenTurkic · 7 m1 · National