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Some linguistic scholars assert that the term " Kurdish " has been applied extrinsically in describing the language the Kurds speak, while Kurds have used the word " Kurdish " to simply describe their ethnic or national identity and refer to their language as Kurmanji, Sorani, Hewrami, Kermanshahi, Kalhery or whatever other dialect or language they speak.

Some historians have noted that it is only recently that the Kurds who speak the Sorani dialect have begun referring to their language as Kurdî, in addition to their identity, which is translated to simply mean Kurdish.