The Kurds are an ethnic group who are
indigenous to a region often referred to as
Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts of
Iran,
Iraq,
Syria, and
Turkey. Kurdish communities can also be found in
Lebanon,
Armenia,
Azerbaijan (
Kalbajar and
Lachin, to the west of
Nagorno Karabakh) and, in recent decades, some European countries and the
United States (see
Kurdish diaspora). Ethnically related to other
Iranian peoples, they speak
Kurdish, an
Indo-European language of the
Iranian branch. However, the Kurds' ethnic origins are uncertain. According to
Encyclopedia Columbia, Kurds are commonly identified with the ancient
Corduene which was in turn inhabited by the
Carduchi.
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