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To consider Hawrami and Zaza (Zazaki) standalone languages or dialects of alanguage have been discussed and debated for a while among linguists active instudying Iranian languages. The question of whether those languages/dialectsbelong to the Kurdish language or if they are independent descendants ofIranian languages was answered by MacKenzie (1961). However, a majority ofpeople who speak the dialects are against that answer. Their disapproval mainlyseems to be based on the sociological, cultural, and historical relationshipamong the speakers of the dialects. While the case of Hawrami and Zaza hasremained unexplored and under-examined, an almost unanimous agreement existsabout the classification of Kurmanji and Sorani as Kurdish dialects. Therelated studies to address the mentioned cases are primarily qualitative.However, computational linguistics could approach the question from aquantitative perspective. In this research, we look into three questions from alinguistic distance point of view. First, how similar or dissimilar Hawrami andZaza are, considering no common geographical coexistence between the two.Second, what about Kurmanji and Sorani that have geographical overlap. Finally,what is the distance among all these dialects, pair by pair? We base ourcomputation on phonetic presentations of these dialects (languages), and wecalculate various linguistic distances among the pairs. We analyze the data anddiscuss the results to conclude.

Can Linguistic Distance help Language Classification? Assessing Hawrami-Zaza and Kurmanji-Sorani