Hawrāmi: Language, Dialect, or Accent and Its Position in the Iranian Languages

The common residence of Hawrāms and Kurds, as well as some lexical similarities between the two dialects, which arose from the extensive Kurdish borrowing of Hawrāmi throughout history, led to a misapprehension among scholars about the origin of Hawrāmi. Therefore, linguists express different views about the position of H;Qrîmi in the Iranian languages, especially its genetic relation to Kurdish. In the meantime, the distinction between language and dialect within Hawrāmi is still problematic. However, studies show that Hawrāmi, a northwestern branch of New Iranian languages, is an independent language with many dialects or accents and does not belong to Kurdish.