Southern Kurdish

Q: What alphabet or script does Southern Kurdish use?

Southern Kurdish is written using the Arabic script (Arab).

Q: What direction is Southern Kurdish written?

Southern Kurdish is written Right-to-left, meaning text flows from right to left.

کوردی خوارگ

sdh

Southern Kurdish (کوردی خوارگ) is a language . It is written using the Arabic script. Its BCP 47 language code is sdh.

Writing Systems Used for Southern Kurdish

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Southern Kurdish use?

Southern Kurdish is written using the Arabic script (ISO 15924 code: Arab). Arabic is a right-to-left script.

What direction is Southern Kurdish written?

Southern Kurdish is written Right-to-left. Text begins on the right side of the page and reads toward the left.

What is the language code for Southern Kurdish?

The BCP 47 language code for Southern Kurdish is "sdh". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code: sdh
ISO 639-3: sdh
Status: living
Scripts: 1
Primary Script: Arabic

Other Arabic Languages

Algerian Arabic Arabic Bakhtiari Baluchi Beja Brahui Central Kurdish Comorian Egyptian Arabic Gilaki Hausa Kashmiri Kazakh Khowar Kyrgyz Malay Mazanderani Moroccan Arabic Najdi Arabic Northern Luri

Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.