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Southern Kurdish, also called Kermānšāni, belongs to the Northwestern Iranian languages and is predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah (Kermānšān) and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It has more than one million speakers in the city of Baghdad. 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. Southern Kurdish which is spoken in Iran in Ilam and Kermanshah provinces, is very similar to Laki which is spoken in Lorestan, Hamedan, and Kermanshah. Southern dialects standard written form is like standard Persian and have not been adequately studied.
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