Sorani is a Kurdish dialect as an Iranian language. It is spoken by a total of approx. 8,000,000 people in Iraq and Iran. It is the most widespread speech form of Iraqi Kurds.

-In Iran: 60% of the Iranian Kurds. Located south of the Urmia-lake that stretches roughly to the city of Kermanshah.

-In Iraq: 55% of the Iraqi Kurds. Most of them in the vicinity of Hawler and Sulaymaniyah.

Sorani is usually written in the Arabic script, from right to left, in contrast to the other main Kurdic language (or dialect), Kurmanji, which is spoken mainly in Turkey and in all other parts of Kurdistan and is usually written in the Roman alphabet (but sometimes Cyrillic or Armenian alphabets).

External links:

• KAL: The Kurdish Academy of Language
• the New Testament in Sorani