The Kurdish Language Academy in Iran is a school in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, educating students on the Kurdish language.  Kurdish is sociopolitically considered a single language; however the limited mutual intelligibility of its varieties means that it's a dialect continuum.

Establishment 
The Kurdish Language Academy in Iran was established in Tehran in 2002 when the First Conference on Kurdish Language Teaching was held in 2002. More than 150 Iranian Kurdish writers, academicians, linguists and journalists participated in this conference and a dozen of articles on the different aspects of Kurdish language were presented. The conference, though of no governmental support, was conducted by the Cultural Institute of Kurdistan in Tehran and Peyv Literary Community in Saghez. Based on the article fifteen of the Iranian Constitution, the Kurdish language is to be taught in the schools of Iranian Kurdistan.  However, it Kurdish has never been taught in Iranian Kurdistan . The conference emphasized the necessity of the establishment of an academy for Kurdish language. Hence, based on the votes of the participants of the conference the members of the newly established Kurdish Language Academy in Iran were elected. The academy includes Fifteen staff members and five associate members.

Objectives 
Among the major objectives of  the Kurdish  Language Academy are  the development of Kurdish language, paving the way for Kurdish language teaching in Iran in a formal and academic way, and motivating, as well as sponsoring, various attempts to improve and teach Kurdish language all over Iran.

Zimanewan, the academy's journal
Kurdish Language Academy issues a quarterly journal called Zimanewan (The Linguist). It publishes analytical articles on the different aspects of Kurdish language, among which are the following:
 major Kurdish dialects including Sorani, Kurmanji, Gorani and Zazai
 all Kurdish sub-dialects and accents such as Erdelani, Mokriyani, Shikaki and Kelhuri
 the grammar of all Kurdish dialects and sub-dialects
 the process of word and term coinage in the Kurdish language
 language and identity
 language and culture
 philology
 phonetics
 critique of the non-scientific and immature works on Kurdish language.

Members 
The list of the Members according to the votes of the elections:
1. Ata Nahai
2. Ahmad Ghazi
3. Dr. Ali Rokhzadi
4. Dr. Aziz Jiyan
5. Kalimollah Tavahodi
6. Dr. Bakhtiar Sajjadi
7. Abdulkhaleq Yaghubi
8. Dr. Jalal Jalalizade
9. Kamran Rahim
10. Farugh Keikhosravi
11. Yusof Rasulabadi
12. Reza Shajei
13. Rashid Kermanj
13. Ahmad Bahri
14. Naser Vahid
15. Mansour Teifuri

External links
 The website of the Kurdish Language Academy in Iran

Kurdish language
Kurdish literature