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Kurmanji (Kurmancî) or Northern Kurdish (also written Kirmanji Kurmangi or Kermanji) is the most populous of the Kurdish languages. While Kurdish is generally considered to be a Northwestern Iranian language in origin it also shares many traits with Southwestern Iranian languages like Persian apparently due to longstanding and intense historical contacts and some authorities have gone so far as to classify Kurmanji as a Southwestern or southern Iranian language.