- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 12 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Where it is spoken
- Regional 1
- Minority 9
Regional
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Iraq
10%
4.2 million
Kurmanji (Badini) predominates in Duhok province.
Minority
- Türkiye 5.5% 4.6 million
- Syria 8% 1.9 million
- Germany 0.7% 555 thousand
- Iran 0.6% 495 thousand
- Armenia 3.3% 98 thousand
- Lebanon 1.7% 91 thousand
- Georgia 0.9% 44 thousand
- Azerbaijan 0.2% 26 thousand
- Turkmenistan 0.4% 23 thousand