It was originally spoken in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in and around Hewler between the Great Zab and Little Zab rivers, it was also spoken in Turkey in the city of Cizre and its environs and in the Hakkari Mountains.
Laryngeals and pharyngeals originally found in Lishanid Noshan have not been preserved.
"[5] Word stress often occurs on the final syllable of stems of nominals and verbs.
The referent of subject nominals in this canonical order can be identified from the prior discourse or through assumed shared information between the speakers.
[10] Definiteness is expressed if the speaker assumes the hearer has background knowledge on the nominal being inserted into the conversation.
The main stress is inserted either on the predicate phrase or on la, the negator in Lishanid Noshan.