Language · Indo-European
Central Kurdish
کوردیی ناوەندی – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 2 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 5.6 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Arabic
Place in the family tree
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Central Iranian PBS
- Central Iranian PB
- Northwestern Iranian
- Laki-Kurdish
- Kurdish
- Central Kurdish
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
- Minority 1
Co-official
-
Iraq
12%
5.1 million
Kurdish is co-official throughout Iraq (2005 Constitution); Sorani predominates in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.
Minority
- Iran 0.6% 557 thousand