An important question in the study of communication is learning how individuals manage to open conversations or how people can address each other in a given language ( Aliakbari & Toni, 2008). Oyetade (1995) defines terms of address as words or expressions used in interactive and face-to-face situations to refer to the person to whom one is speaking. Terms of address in different linguistic communities are worth studying, terms of address appear to be influenced by culture (Fitch, 1991; Morford, 1997). Zhang (2011) argues that “culture and language are closely related. Language carries culture, culture is reflected through language. Language is the presentation of culture Language is culturally charged; culture has a strong influence on language, particularly on its social function and its pragmatics in communication” (p. 54). Therefore, forms of address are an essential part of people's language. One form of address terms is kinship address terms. Kinship terms describe how people in various parts of the world refer to their brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. (Wardhaugh, 2006). Considering that Persian is the official language of the Iranian country, it is observed that even in the Kurdish dialect, the application of Persian kinship terms increases and replaces Kurdish terms. Such a question was motivating enough to investigate the use of the term Kurdish/Persian kinship address in the Kurdish community. The reason for examining kinship terms is that the researcher, as a native speaker of the Sorani dialect, realized that the use of kinship terms in my community is not satisfactory. To date, little sociolinguistic research has been conducted on the influence of non-linguistic factors. on various using kinship terms in Sorani ...... middle of paper ...... having different levels of education. They will be divided into three groups based on their age, gender and education level based on their personal information which will be obtained in the first part of the questionnaire. The data for this study is collected through a questionnaire developed by one of the MA students of Ilam University. The researcher used Cronbach's α method to make the questionnaire more reliable. The acceptable reliability rate of an interlocutor is greater than 70%. It will be modified. The questionnaire consists of two parts. In the first part, participants will be asked to answer some questions about their personal information regarding age, education and gender. The second part includes 15 questions that participants are invited to read, imagine themselves in these situations and choose the family address forms they usually use to address each other..