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  2. Kurdish alphabets - Wikipedia

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    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. Written Central Kurdish also relies on vowel and consonant ...

  3. Sorani - Wikipedia

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    The term Sorani, named after the Soran Emirate, is used especially to refer to a written, standardized form of Central Kurdish written in the Sorani alphabet developed from the Arabic alphabet in the 1920s by Sa'ed Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby. [13]

  4. Kurdish typography - Wikipedia

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    The Central Kurdish variety Sorani is mainly written using an Arabic alphabet with 33 letters. Unlike the regular Arabic script , which is an abjad , Kurdish Arabic is an alphabet in which vowels are mandatory.

  5. Kurdish language - Wikipedia

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    The main varieties of Kurdish are Kurmanji, Sorani, and Southern Kurdish (Xwarîn). The majority of the Kurds speak Kurmanji, [15] and most Kurdish texts are written in Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurmanji is written in the Hawar alphabet, a derivation of the Latin script, and Sorani is written in the Sorani alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script.

  6. Sorani alphabet - Wikipedia

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  7. Southern Kurdish - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Kurdish alphabet is very similar to the Central Kurdish (Sorani) alphabet, which is a derivation of the Arabic alphabet. Southern Kurdish has one additional letter "ۊ"; the Arabic letter waw with two dots above.

  8. Kurdish phonology - Wikipedia

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    Sorani. According to Hamid (2015), /x, xʷ, ɣ, ɣʷ/ are uvular ... /ʔ/ is mainly present in Arabic loanwords and it affects the pronunciation of adjacent vowels ...

  9. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [ 2 ] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number ...