Talk:List of Northwestern Iranian languages

Someone entered Khalaj in the list of Northwest Iranian languages. This is plain wrong, since Khalaj is a Turkic language. I've corrected it. Sassisch

Gorani and Kurdish
The discussion about whether Gorani is kurdish or not is sometimes absurd. It is interresting that outsider linguists and scholars label Gorani as non-kurdish when the Goranis themselvescall themselves Kurd and their language/dialect Kurdi (Kurdish). However there is no question about that the Kurmanjis language is Kurdish according to linguists. This however in spite of that the Kurmajis call their language/dialect Kurmanji. So what should be asked is who is a kurd? the Gorans or the Kurmanj? should the kurds define themselves or should outsiders label who is a kurd and who is not? If we accept thet the Gorans are Kurds and the kurmanjs are not then we have a ridiculous situation, when the majority group of the kurds are not kurds. It should also be remembered that the difference between language and dialect is a political matter, norwegian, swedish and danish would easily be qualified as one language. However due to political issues they are not. Since the kurds haven't been a political power for the latest 100 years, labeling of the kurds hasn't been made by the kurds themselves. So Gorani is also Kurdish, perhaps "more" kurdish than "the kurdish(ie. kurmanji) language" itself.