
Kurdish belongs to the northwestern sub-group of the Iranian languages, which belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Kurdish is the language spoken by Kurds in western Asia, though it does not have a single standardized linguistic entity with the status of an official or state language. Rather, it is a continuum of closely related dialects spoken in a large geographic area spanning several national states. Today, Kurdish refers to a group of closely related langu...
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