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These types of possessive phrases in Sorani Kurdish are formed by the combination of two nouns with the help of a genitive case marker known as ‘ȋ or y". To clarify, the addition of "ȋ /y" in Sorani Kurdish, known as the "zafe," is equivalent to the English genitive case maker "POSS andof”.
Central Kurdish, [a] also known as Sorani 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 western Iran.
Kurdish varieties constitute a dialect continuum, [13] with some mutually unintelligible varieties, [11] and collectively have 26 million native speakers. [14] 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.
Venn diagram showing Kurdish, Persian and Arabic letters. Many Kurdish varieties, mainly Sorani, are written using a modified Perso-Arabic script 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 ...
Michael L. Chyet (born 1957) is an American linguist.. He is a cataloguer of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress.Formerly he was senior editor of the Kurdish Service of the Voice of America and professor of Kurdish at the University of Paris and at the Washington Kurdish Institute.
The Kurdish dictionary that everyone knows does not actually exist. There is no dictionary named "Deng Publications Dictionary of all Kurdish dialects (2017)". There is no online link or ISBN code source for the Kurdish dictionary, which is claimed to have 735,320 words. If available, show the ISBN code or PDF file version of this book.
A Kurdish noun in the absolute state, in other words without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the noun. It is also the citation form of the noun, i.e. the form in which a noun is given in a vocabulary list or dictionary. Nouns in Kurmanji are declined in four cases: nominative, oblique, construct (or ezafe) and vocative. The ...
The Kurdish Wikipedia established on 7 January 2004, [2] designed to contain articles in Kurmanji and Sorani at the same time. On 12 August 2009, Kurdish Wikipedia separated into two versions due to technical and linguistic issues. The old version (ku.) remained as Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia and a new version (ckb.) created for Sorani Kurdish ...