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Kurdish phonology is the sound system of the Kurdish dialect continuum.This article includes the phonology of the three Kurdish languages in their respective standard descriptions.
The main tenses: . Min nan dexom. (Present) "I am eating the meal." Min nanim xward. (Past) "I ate the meal." Past Perfect Tense (Intransitive) For intransitive verbs with past stems ending in a consonant (like hatin > hat-), the past perfect tense, which is functionally equivalent to the English past perfect (‘I had come, you had gone’), is formed from the past stem + i + the past tense ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Kurdish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Kurdish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The literary output in Kurdish was mostly confined to poetry until the early 20th century, when more general literature became developed. Today, the two principal written Kurdish dialects are Kurmanji and Sorani. Sorani is, along with Arabic, one of the two official languages of Iraq and is in political documents simply referred to as "Kurdish".
Venn diagram showing Kurdish, Persian and Arabic letters. Many Kurdish varieties, mainly Sorani, are written using a modified Arabic alphabet with 33 letters introduced by Sa'id Kaban Sedqi. Unlike the Persian alphabet, which is an abjad, Central Kurdish is almost a true alphabet in which vowels are given the same treatment as consonants ...
A Sorani Kurdish speaker, recorded in Norway. Sorani Kurdish (Sorani Kurdish: کوردیی ناوەندی, Kurdî Nawendî), [3] [4] [5] also known as Central Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect [6] [7] [8] or a language [9] [10] spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in ...
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Among all modern Iranian languages, only Yaghnobi and Kurdish are ergative, with respect to both case-marking and verb-agreement. [1] There are general descriptions of ergativity in Kurdish, [2] [3] as well as in specific forms of Kurdish, such as Sorani [4] and Kurmanji. [5] Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish have a split-ergative system. Transitive ...