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| Selected languages: | Kurmanji_ |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Kurdish |
| The languages has | 45 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [pʰ] [p] [b] [tʰ] [t] [d] [kˁ] [kʰ] [k] [q] [s] [ʒ] [f] [v] [z] [ʃ] [x] [ɣ] [ħ] [ʕ] [tʃ] [tʃʰ] [dʒ] [ɾ] [r] [l] [w] [m] [n] [ŋ] [ɪ] [i] [ʊ] [u] [e] [o] [æ] [ɑ] [e̞i] [äi] [h] [ɡ] [pˤ] [tˤ] [ʧˤ] |
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| Sources: | http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Kurmanji/kurmanji_1_grammar.pdf |