Southern Kurdish language

Southern Kurdish
کوردی خوارگ
Native to	Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
Native speakers	3,000,000 in Iran (2000)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern Kurdish Southern Kurdish
Dialects	Bayray Feyli Garrusi (Bijari) Kermanshahi Kolyai Kordali Malekshahi Sanjabi Laki Kalhori Zangana
Writing system	Hawar alphabet, Perso-Arabic (Sorani alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	sout2640
Linguasphere	58-AAA-c

Southern Kurdish (کوردی خوارگ; kurdîy xwarig) is a Kurdic group of languages/dialects predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It is also the dialect of the populous Kurdish Kakayî-Kakavand tribe near Kirkuk and most Yarsani kurds in Kermanshah province. There are also populous diasporas of Palewani-speakers found in the Alburz mountains.

Native speakers use various different alphabets to write Southern Kurdic, the most common ones are extensions of the standard Kurdish alphabets.

The extension consists of an extra vowel, "ۊ" for the Arabic-based Sorani script and "ü" for the Latin-based Kurmanji script.

The subdialects of Southern Kurdic are:

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