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Name:
Gurani
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Howrami; Hawrami; Hewrami; Hawramani; Gorani; Macho; Awromani
Spoken in:
Iraq, Iran
Number of speakers:
21,100 in Iraq (2000). Several hundred thousand for Gurani speakers in both Iraq and Iran (Blau 1989). Population total all countries: 44,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
44047
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
hac
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Zaza-Gorani (zago)
Child Dialects:
Hawraman-I Luhon (hac-haw)
Kandula (hac-kan)
Hawraman-I Taxt (hac-tax)
Gawhara (hac-gaw)
Gurani; Gorani (hac-gur)
Kakai; Macho (hac-kak)
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Gurani
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