Ilami

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Ilami is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in and around the city of Ilam in western Iran.

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Label Occurrences
Ilami canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional variety of Southern Kurdish
closelyRelatedTo Kermanshahi Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish

Laki
country Iran
hasDialectContinuumWith other Southern Kurdish varieties
hasFeature ergative alignment in past tenses (shared with Kurdish varieties)
influencedBy Arabic
Persian
ISO639Status not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Southern Kurdish)
languageBranch Northwest Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Kurdish
linguisticTypology agglutinative morphology
subject–object–verb word order
minorityLanguageIn Iran
primaryRegion city of Ilam and surrounding areas
region Zagros Mountains area
linked to: Zagros Mountains
script Perso-Arabic script
sharesVocabularyWith other Kurdish dialects
spokenBy Kurds of Ilam region
spokenIn Ilam
Ilam Province
western Iran
subdivisionOf Southern Kurdish
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition and folklore
uses postpositions
writingSystem Arabic script with Persian modifications

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