Kermanshahi dialects

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Kermanshahi dialects are different dialects belonging to the North-Western Iranian languages

They predominate in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah (Kirmaşan) and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It is also the language of the populous Kurdish Kakayî tribe near Kerkuk and the Zengenes near Kifrî. There are also populous diasporas of Southern Kurdish Dialects group found in the Alburz mountains. Its dialects are Kolyaî, Kermanshahi (Kirmaşanî), Kalhuri, Garrusi (Gerrûsî) (Bijari), Sanjabi (Sencabî), Malek Shahi (Melikşay), Beyrey or Mahaki (which is a sub-dialect of Feyli) and Feyli (ilami). It had around 3 million speakers in Iran in 2000. [1][2]

[edit] See also

• Gorani, Hewrami
• Central Kurdish
• Northern Kurdish

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