Pashto) (کندهارۍ پښتو – Kandahari Pashto) Durrani dialect (or Southern dialect) (Southern Proper) Kakar dialect (or Southeastern dialect) Shirani dialect Marwat-Bettani dialect (spoken by the Marwat and the Bettani) Southern Karlani group Dawarwola dialect Khattak dialect Bannuchi dialect (spoken by the Bannuchi) Tsalga Wazirwola dialect (in Waziristan) Masidwola dialect (spoken by the Mehsuds / Masid) Wanetsi (Tarīnō / Chalgarī) (وڼېڅي – Waṇētsī; ترينو – Tarīnō; څلګري – Tsalgarī) (an archaic and divergent Pakhto/Pashto variety) (divergent enough to be considered a separate language with its own dialects, although closely related to the other Pakhto or Pashto languages) Gedrosian (was spoken in Gedrosia / Gwadar / Maka?, roughly corresponding with today's Makran, Balochistan) (extinct) Western Iranian languages Old West Iranian (extinct) Northwestern Iranian languages / Northern Western Iranian Median / Medic (was the language of the Medes) (extinct) Northwestern I Kurdish (dialect continuum) Laki (لکي – Lekî) Pish-e Kuh Laki Posht-e Kuh Laki Southern Kurdish (Pehlewani, Palewani, Xwarig / Xwarîn) (کوردی خوارین – Kurdîy Xwarîn) Bayray Feyli (spoken by the Feyli tribe) Garrusi (Bijari) (Gerrûsî) (Bîcarî) Kermanshahi Kolyai Kordali Malekshahi (Melikşayî) Sanjabi (Sanjâbi / Sincawî) (spoken by the Sanjâbi) Kalhori (Kelhûrî) (spoken by the Kalhor) Zangana Central Kurdish (Sorani) (کوردیی ناوەندی – Kurdîy Nawendî) (سۆرانی – Soranî) Mukriyani/Mokriyani (spoken south of Lake Urmia with Mahabad as its center) Hawleri (spoken in and around the city of Hawler (Erbil) in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Hawler (Erbil) Governorate and Oshnavieh in Iran) Ardalani (spoken in the cities of Sanandaj, Saqqez, Marivan, Kamyaran, Divandarreh and Dehgolan in Kordestan province and the Kurdish speaking mores of Tekab and Shahindej in West Azerbaijan province) (in Ardalan region) Wermawi Garmiani / Germiyani Jafi (spoken in the towns of Javanroud, Ravansar, Salas-e Babajani and some villages around Paveh, Sarpole Zahab and the parts of Kermanshah City) Babani (spoken in Sulaymaniyah and around this city, in Iraq, and the city of Baneh, in Iran) (in Baban) Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) (Kurmancî – کورمانجی / Кӧрманщи – Kӧrmanshchi / Kurdiya Jorîn – کوردیا ژۆرین / Êzdîkî) Southeastern Kurmanji (Badînî / Botani / Boti) (spoken in the Hakkâri province of Turkey and Dohuk Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan) Hekari Shemdinani (in Shamdinli / Şemdinli) Southern Kurmanji (spoken in the Al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria, the Sinjar district in Iraq, and in several adjacent parts of Turkey centering on the Mardin and Batman provinces) (includes Hewler/Diyarbakır) Southwestern Kurmanji (spoken in the Adıyaman/Semsûr, Gaziantep/Entab and Şanlıurfa provinces of