The Kurds are members of an ethnic group whose population is concentrated in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, portions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and western Armenia, and other adjacent areas. They speak Kurdish, a West Iranian language which is in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
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