page_title: Feyli (tribe)
hierarchical_section_title: Feyli (tribe)
caption_attribution_description: English: SOUTHERN KURDISH AREA
context_page_description: Feylis, is a tribe mainly living in the borderlands between Iraq and Iran, and in Baghdad. They speak Feyli which is classified as a sub-dialect of Southern Kurdish, but is commonly mistaken as being identical with the separate Feyli dialect of Northern Luri. Linguist Ismaïl Kamandâr Fattah argues that the Kurdish Feyli dialect and other Southern Kurdish sub-dialects are 'interrelated and largely mutually intelligible.'
  Feylis are recognized as ethnic Kurds in the Iraqi constitution. In January 2019, Feyli Kurds received a reserved minority seat in Wasit Governorate, which was won by Mazen Abdel Moneim Gomaa with 5,078 votes in the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also used the term "Feyli Kurds" in January 2019.
  Encyclopædia Iranica describes Feylis as a Lur tribe.
context_section_description: Feylis (Kurdish: فه‌یلی ,Feylî‎, also known as Feyli Kurds), is a tribe mainly living in the borderlands between Iraq and Iran, and in Baghdad. They speak Feyli (also known as "Ilami" or "Southern Kurdish Feyli") which is classified as a sub-dialect of Southern Kurdish, but is commonly mistaken as being identical with the separate Feyli dialect of Northern Luri. Linguist Ismaïl Kamandâr Fattah argues that the Kurdish Feyli dialect and other Southern Kurdish sub-dialects are 'interrelated and largely mutually intelligible.'
  Feylis are recognized as ethnic Kurds in the Iraqi constitution. In January 2019, Feyli Kurds received a reserved minority seat in Wasit Governorate, which was won by Mazen Abdel Moneim Gomaa with 5,078 votes in the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also used the term "Feyli Kurds" in January 2019.
  Encyclopædia Iranica describes Feylis as a Lur tribe.
caption: Feylis and their dialect
exif: {}