Abstract EN:

The kirmanshahi-fayli dialect, one of the greatest southern kurdish dialects, is spoken mostly in the kirmanshah and ilam provinces of Iran and along the iranian border from Khanaqin to Badra in Irak. Until now this dialect was not well known by iranologists and essentially perceived as isolated and separated fragments. Here it is resituated and given proper limits within the complicated frame of southern kurdish dialects. We offer a study of its phonetical and phonological, morphological, syntaxical and lexical aspects, always taking into account its linguistic variations. These are organised into five variation groups which have been derived from our study of a dozen cities and regions. Other kurdological questions, namely the confusion among the orientalists about this wide region, particularly concerning the lak, lor and guran dialects, along with the question of the writing and unification of the kurdish language, are