Southern Kurdish
E169403
Iranian language
Kurdish language variety
Northwest Iranian language
Western Iranian language
language
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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Kurdish canonical | 17 |
| Southern Kurdish dialect continuum | 3 |
| Kermanshahi Kurdish | 2 |
| Feyli Kurdish | 1 |
| Kurdish, Southern | 1 |
| Southern Kurdi | 1 |
| Southern Kurdish language continuum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1472866 — 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: Southern Kurdish Context triple: [Kurdish language, hasDialect, Southern Kurdish]
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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.
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B.
Gilaki
Gilaki is an Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran’s Gilan Province along the Caspian Sea coast.
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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.
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D.
Shushtari dialect
The Shushtari dialect is a regional variety of Persian spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in southwestern Iran, reflecting distinctive phonological and lexical features within the Southwestern Iranian language group.
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E.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
- 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: Southern Kurdish Target entity description: 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.
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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.
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B.
Gilaki
Gilaki is an Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran’s Gilan Province along the Caspian Sea coast.
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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.
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D.
Shushtari dialect
The Shushtari dialect is a regional variety of Persian spoken in and around the city of Shushtar in southwestern Iran, reflecting distinctive phonological and lexical features within the Southwestern Iranian language group.
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E.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian language
ⓘ
Kurdish language variety ⓘ Northwest Iranian language ⓘ Western Iranian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
ⓘ
Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) ⓘ
linked to:
Kurdish language
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Kurdish, Southern
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdi ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Kurdish
Xwarînî (in some local usage) ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bayrayi
ⓘ
Feyli ⓘ Ilami ⓘ Kalhori ⓘ Kermanshahi ⓘ
linked to:
Kermanshah
Laki (often classified with Southern Kurdish by some linguists) ⓘ Malekshahi ⓘ |
| hasLexicalFeature |
loanwords from Arabic
ⓘ
many unique lexical items not shared with other Kurdish varieties ⓘ strong influence from Persian ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
distinct vowel system compared to Sorani and Kurmanji
ⓘ
preservation of some archaic Iranian phonemes ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
minority language in Iran
ⓘ
minority language in Iraq ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script (non-standard, occasional use)
ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| isMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
partially mutually intelligible with Central Kurdish
ⓘ
partially mutually intelligible with Northern Kurdish ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sdh ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Kurdish language continuum ⓘ |
| region |
Baghdad (Feyli Kurdish communities)
ⓘ
Diyala Governorate ⓘ Ilam Province ⓘ Kermanshah Province ⓘ Lorestan Province (parts) ⓘ
linked to:
Lorestan Province
Wasit Governorate ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kurdish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Kurds
Southern Kurds ⓘ
linked to:
Kurds
|
| spokenIn |
Iran
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ |
| spokenPrimarilyIn |
eastern Iraq
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Iraq
western Iran ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Kurdish ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folk music
ⓘ
local media (radio, TV, online) ⓘ oral literature ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Southern Kurdish Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Southern Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish
linked to: Southern Kurdish
subject linked to:
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
linked to: Southern Kurdish
subject linked to:
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
linked to: Southern Kurdish