Bahdini

E751954

Bahdini is a Northern Kurdish dialect spoken primarily in parts of Turkey and Iraq.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bahdinan 1
Bahdini canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kurdish dialect
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Badînî
Kurmanji Kurdish
linked to: Kurmanji
hasAlternativeName Badini
linked to: Badinani

Badînî
Bahdinani
Bahdinî
linked to: Badînî
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Turkish
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past transitive constructions
gender distinction in pronouns
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
languageOf Bahdini Kurds
linked to: Kurds
mutualIntelligibility largely intelligible with other Kurmanji varieties
region Upper Tigris region
northern Mesopotamia
spokenIn Duhok Governorate
linked to: Duhok

Hakkari Province
linked to: Hakkâri

Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
linked to: Kurdistan

Mardin Province
linked to: Mardin

Turkey
Turkish Kurdistan
linked to: Kurdistan

diaspora communities
Şırnak Province
linked to: Şırnak
standardizationStatus lacks fully standardized orthography
subdivisionOf Kurmanji
Northern Kurdish
usedBy Sunni Muslim Kurdish communities
usedFor everyday communication
local education in some schools
usedIn folklore
local media
music
oral literature
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Behdini alternativeName Bahdini
Bahdinan region hasAlternativeName Bahdinan
linked to: Bahdini