Kurdish, Southern

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A language of Iran

ISO 639-3
sdh
Population

3,000,000 in Iran (Fattah 2000). All Kurdish: 5,390,000 (2014 M. Izady).

Location

West, mainly Kermanshah and Ilam provinces; to east, Hamadan, Lorestan, Kordestan, and Khuzestan provinces; southeast, small area in Sistan va Baluchestan Province.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Kurdish
Dialects

Kolyai, Kermanshahi (Kermanshani), Kalhori, Garrusi (Bijari), Sanjabi, Malekshahi (Maleksh ay), Bayray, Kordali, Luri. A member of macrolanguage Kurdish [kur].

Language Use

Home. Also use Iranian Persian [pes], Northern Luri [lrc]. Used as L2 by Gurani [hac].

Language Development
Teaching of literature in regional languages of Iran is allowed in the 1979 Constitution. In practice, the use of Kurdish in general education in local situations has been limited. Bible portions: 1894–1900.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Kurdish, Southern
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Arabic script, Nastaliq variant [Aran], used in Iran.

Other Comments

Muslim.

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