Langenesis

Indo-European family

Kurmanji

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Kurmanji (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Proto-Kurdish → Kurmanji.

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Speakers
15M (15,000,000)
ISO 639-3
kmr
Glottocode
nort2641

Northern Kurdish, spoken in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, Iran and the diaspora; usually written in Latin script.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Kurdishc. 300 BCE – 1000 CE
  5. Kurmanjic. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Kurdish.

Sources