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Name: Kurdish, Northern Type: Language Alternate Names: Khorasani Kurmanji; Khorasani; Behdini; Bahdini; Badinani; Kirmanciya Jori; Eastern Kurmanji; Kordi; Kurdi; Êzdîkî; Kurmanji; Kurmancî; Kirmancî; Kermancî; Kurdî; Northern Kurdish; Zaza; Western Kurdish; Kirmanji; Kurdish (Central); Kurdish (Northern); Kurdisch Spoken in: Lebanon, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Belgium, Iraq, Iran, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Georgia, France, Turkmenistan, Germany, Denmark, Armenia, Jordan, Kuwait, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Bahrain, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Austria Number of speakers: 3,950,000 in Turkey (1980). Population total all countries: 9,320,240. Ethnic population: 6,500,000 in Turkey (Johnstone 1993) (Ethnologue) Code: kmr Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Subgroup: Kurdish (kurd) Child Dialects: Hekari (kmr-hek) Marashi (kmr-mar) Ashiti (kmr-ash) Bayezidi (kmr-bay) Barwari Jor; Barwari (kmr-bar) Boti; Botani (kmr-bot) Shemdinani (kmr-shm) Surchi (kmr-sur) Amadiye (kmr-ama) Khorasani Kurmanji; Khorassani Kurmanji (kmr-kho) Sheikhan (kmr-she) Akre (kmr-akr) Gulli (kmr-gul) Zakho (kmr-zak) Mhallami; Mardinli (kmr-mha)