↑SIL Ethnologue gives estimates, broken down by dialect group, totalling 31 million, but with the caveat of "Very provisional figures for Northern Kurdish speaker population". Ethnologue estimates for dialect groups:
Northern: 20.2M (undated; 15M in Turkey for 2009),
Central: 6.75M (2009),
Southern: 3M (2000),
Laki: 1M (2000).
The Swedish Nationalencyklopedin listed Kurdish in its "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), citing an estimate of 20.6 million native speakers.
↑MacCagg, William O.; Silver, Brian D., eds. (1979). Soviet Asian Ethnic Frontiers. Pergamon Press. p. 94. ISBN9780080246376. Since the most active Soviet Kurdish center has been and continues to be Yerevan, the first alphabet used for publishing Kurdish in the USSR was the Armenian alphabet.
↑Курдский язык (in ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ). Krugosvet. ...в Армении на основе русского алфавита с 1946 (с 1921 на основе армянской графики, с 1929 на основе латиницы).
↑Khamoyan, M. (1986). "Քրդերեն ". Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 12 (in ᱟᱨᱢᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱹᱱ). p. 492. ...գրկ. լույս է տեսնում 1921-ից հայկ., 1929-ից՝ լատ., 1946-ից՝ ռուս. այբուբենով...
↑"Social Contract - Sa-Nes". Self-Administration of North & East Syria Representation in Benelux. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
↑Pavlenko, Aneta (2008). Multilingualism in post-Soviet countries. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. pp. 18–22. ISBN978-1-84769-087-6.
↑Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kurdish". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (help)
↑The Kurdish Issue in TurkeyArchived ᱒᱐᱑᱔-᱐᱙-᱒᱑ at the Wayback Machine., Stavroula Chrisdoulaki, GRIN Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-76700-7, ... The Kurdish language belongs to Iranian languages, which is a branch of Indo-Iranian of the Indo-European languages ... There are two main dominant dialects: the Kurmanji – which is spoken mostly by the northern Kurds – and the Surani – which is spoken mostly by the southern Kurds ...
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