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Name: Gurani

Alternate Names: Howrami; Hawrami; Hewrami; Hawramani; Gorani; Macho; Awromani

Spoken in: Iraq, Iran

Number of speakers: 21,100 in Iraq (2000). Several hundred thousand for Gurani speakers in both Iraq and Iran (Blau 1989). Population total all countries: 44,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 44047 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: hac

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Subgroup: Zaza-Gorani (zago)

Child Dialects: Hawraman-I Luhon (hac-haw) Kandula (hac-kan) Hawraman-I Taxt (hac-tax) Gawhara (hac-gaw) Gurani; Gorani (hac-gur) Kakai; Macho (hac-kak)

Endangerment Status

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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