Bayrayi

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Bayrayi is a regional variety of Southern Kurdish spoken by Kurdish communities in parts of western Iran and neighboring areas.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bayrayi canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety
ethnicGroup Kurds
hasFeature shares lexical items with other Kurdish varieties
shares phonological traits with Southern Kurdish
hasLinguisticType spoken language variety
vernacular
hasStatus minority language variety
languageBranch Northwest Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Kurdish
region Kurdish-speaking areas of western Iran
relatedTo Central Kurdish
Gorani
Laki
script Perso-Arabic script
spokenBy Kurdish communities
spokenIn Iran
border regions near western Iran
western Iran
subclassOf Southern Kurdish
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Kurdish hasDialect Bayrayi
Laki language hasDialects Bayrayi