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ISO 639-3 · sdhsdh
Indo-European family
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish is a language of the Northwestern Iranian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Iran and Iraq. Wikidata counts about 3 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “variety of Kurdish comprising several dialects of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in the south of Kurdistan (in upper Mesopotamia, to the west of Iran and east of Iraq)”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sdh- Glottocode
sout2640- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 6a Vigorous
- Centre point
- 36.19, 44.01
- Wikipedia
- 27 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Southern Kurdish |
|---|---|
| All speakers | 3,000,000 |
| Written in | Arabic script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Southern Kurdish
The branches above Southern Kurdish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
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