Central Kurdish (Sorani)

E659424

Kurdish language variety language variety modern Iranian language

Central Kurdish (Sorani) is a major standardized variety of the Kurdish language, widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in education, media, and official contexts.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Central Kurdish	8
Sorani Kurdish	7
Central Kurdish (Sorani) canonical	5
Central Kurdish dialect continuum	1
Kurdish (Sorani)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7346962 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Context triple: [Southern Kurdish, closelyRelatedTo, Central Kurdish (Sorani)]

A. Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
B. Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish is a major variety of the Kurdish language spoken primarily in parts of western Iran and eastern Iraq, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.
C. Tabriz dialect
Tabriz dialect is a prominent regional variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in and around the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, known for its distinctive phonetic and lexical features.
D. Bakhtiari Luri
Bakhtiari Luri is a major Southwestern Iranian dialect spoken primarily by the Bakhtiari people of western and southwestern Iran.
E. Zazaki
Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Target entity description: Central Kurdish (Sorani) is a major standardized variety of the Kurdish language, widely spoken in parts of Iraq and Iran and used in education, media, and official contexts.

A. Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
B. Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish is a major variety of the Kurdish language spoken primarily in parts of western Iran and eastern Iraq, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.
C. Tabriz dialect
Tabriz dialect is a prominent regional variety of the Azerbaijani language spoken in and around the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, known for its distinctive phonetic and lexical features.
D. Bakhtiari Luri
Bakhtiari Luri is a major Southwestern Iranian dialect spoken primarily by the Bakhtiari people of western and southwestern Iran.
E. Zazaki
Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Kurdish language variety ⓘ language variety ⓘ modern Iranian language ⓘ
alternateName	Central Kurdish (Sorani) ⓘ Sorani ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) ⓘ linked to: Northern Kurdish
directionality	right-to-left ⓘ
glottocode	cent1972 ⓘ
hasDialect	Ardalani dialect ⓘ Mukri dialect ⓘ Sulaymani dialect ⓘ linked to: Sulaymaniyah dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature	ergative alignment in past transitive constructions ⓘ suffixal definite marker ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ
hasStandardFormBasedOn	Sulaymani dialect ⓘ linked to: Sulaymaniyah dialect
ISO639-2Code	kur ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	ckb ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European languages ⓘ linked to: Indo-European language family Iranian languages ⓘ
lessCloselyRelatedTo	Southern Kurdish ⓘ
officialStatusIn	Iraq ⓘ
partOf	Kurdish language ⓘ
primaryScript	Arabic script ⓘ
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	Iran ⓘ
spokenBy	Kurds ⓘ
spokenIn	Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ
spokenInRegion	Erbil Governorate ⓘ linked to: Erbil Halabja Governorate ⓘ Kermanshah Province, Iran ⓘ linked to: Kermanshah Province Kurdistan Province, Iran ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan Province (Iran) Kurdistan Region of Iraq ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan Sulaymaniyah Governorate ⓘ linked to: Sulaymaniyah
standardizedIn	Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan
subgroupOf	Southern Kurdish dialect continuum ⓘ linked to: Southern Kurdish
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn	Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan
usedInAdministrationIn	Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan
usedInEducationIn	Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan
usedInMediaIn	Iraqi Kurdistan ⓘ linked to: Kurdistan
usedInWritingFor	broadcast media ⓘ education ⓘ official documents ⓘ print media ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script–based alphabet ⓘ Sorani alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited