Kalhori

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Kalhori is a major dialect of Southern Kurdish spoken primarily in western Iran, particularly in parts of Kermanshah and Ilam provinces.

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Label Occurrences
Kalhori canonical 1

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Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Kurdish dialect
dialect
closelyRelatedTo Ilami Kurdish
linked to: Kurdish language

Kermanshahi Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Kalhorī dialect
Kalhuri
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
rich system of verb inflection
use of enclitic pronouns
vowel length distinctions
hasStatus regional minority dialect in Iran
influencedBy Persian
linked to: Persian language

neighboring Kurdish dialects
languageBranch Western Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
languageGroup Kurdish languages
linked to: Kurdish language
partOf Southern Kurdish dialect continuum
linked to: Southern Kurdish
spokenBy Kalhor Kurds
linked to: Kurds
spokenIn Iran
spokenInProvince Ilam Province
Kermanshah Province
spokenInRegion western Iran
subdivisionOf Southern Kurdish
usedFor everyday communication
folklore
oral literature
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

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

Southern Kurdish hasDialect Kalhori