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Not to be confused with Goran language, also known as Dazaga language, part of the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family, nor with the South Slavic variety Gora(ni). 40x40px Gorani language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator GoraniNative to Iraq and IranRegion Primarily Hawraman and GarmianNative speakers 44,000  (2000)Language family Indo-European Indo-IranianIranianWesternNorthwesternZaza–GoraniGoraniDialects Hawrami Language codesISO 639-3 hacLinguasphere 58-AAA-b Gorani (also Gurani) is a group of Northwestern Iranian dialects spoken by Kurdish people in the southernmost parts of Iranian Kurdistan and the Iraqi Kurdistan region. It is classified as a member of the Zaza–Gorani branch of the Northwestern Iranian languages. The Hewramî dialect, although often considered a sub-dialect of Gorani, is a very distinct dialect spoken by Gorani/Hewrami people in a region called Hewraman along the Iran–Iraq border, and is sometimes considered to be a distinct language. Although Gorani language shares similarities in vocabulary to Kurmanji and Sorani, also spoken by Kurds, Gorani is distinct grammatically from the two and shares similarities with Zazaki. Gorani is spoken in the southwestern corner of province of Kurdistan and northwestern corner of province of Kermanshah in Iran, and in parts of the Halabja region in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Hawraman mountains between Iran and Iraq. The oldest literary documents in these related languages, or dialects, are written in Gorani. Many Gorani speakers belong to the religious grouping Yarsanism, with a large number of religious documents written in Gorani. Gorani was once an important literary language in the southeastern parts of the Kurdistan geographical region but has since been replaced by Sorani. In the nineteenth century, Gorani as a language of communication was slowly replaced by Sorani in several cities, both in Iran and Iraq. Today, Sorani is the primary language spoken in cities including Kirkuk, Meriwan, and Halabja, which are still considered part of the greater Goran region.
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