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Old Kurdish Alphabet 11 Mar 2013 | 02:27 am
The old Kurdish alphabet documented by the welknown muslim author In Wahshia in his book Shawq al-Mustaham in 856 (855?) AC. can provide a final solution for a unified Kurdish alphabet. Ibn Wahshiyya ...
Decreolization Of Kurdish, A Return To The Great Past 7 Dec 2012 | 12:02 am
As has earlier been discussed in previous posts, Kurdish language has a strong Hurro-Urartian substratum in its vocabulary and morphology. This is combined with a heterogeneous Iranic super-stratum e...
The Scythian Language 2 Mar 2012 | 01:12 am
By the mid-seventh century B.C. the Scythians under Partatua reached the summit of their might in western Asia; and the region of Saqqez in Eastern Kurdistan was their political center. The very name ...
Hittite in Kurdish 22 Dec 2011 | 04:38 am
After enlisting numerous remnants of Hurro-Urartian in Kurdish vocabulary and morpheme system, now it is time to recognize loans which have entered Kurdish via Hurro-Urartian. The largest group of lo...
On The Kassites And Kurds (2) 27 Sep 2011 | 06:35 am
The Macro-Comparative Journal. 2011. The Kassite Language In a Comparative Perspective with Hurrian and Urartean A very interesting article about the Kassites and their language. In this article, th....
A Proposal For Latin-Based Kurdish Alphabet (Sample Text) 13 Aug 2011 | 03:16 am
The following text is from the first paragraph of Kurdistan constitution, found in this link in Kurdo-Arabic script. Firstly, in current Latin Kurdish alphabet: Ême, gelî Kurdistan - Êraq, le hestkir...
A Proposal For Latin-Based Kurdish Alphabet (4) 16 Jul 2011 | 12:43 am
If our previous suggestions accepted, then remains only two controversial letters in the alphabet: ç and ş, both directly adopted from Turkish. The negative thing with them is that they include circum...
A Proposal For Latin-Based Kurdish Alphabet (3) 10 Jul 2011 | 12:15 am
In this post two other issues related to Kurdish orthographic system are discussed. 1) Ancient Iranic inter/post-vocalic /p/ and /m/ have developed in two different ways in modern Kurdish dialects. In...
A Proposal For Latin-Based Kurdish Alphabet (2) 11 Jun 2011 | 09:00 am
(Kurdistan, the first Kurdish newspaper) As Celadet Bedrxan had once advised us, Kurds ''need to develop a writing system that allows all speakers h...
Scythians in Ancient Kurdistan 11 May 2011 | 07:36 am
The earliest known record of Scythians in ancient Kurdistan dates back to 819 B.C., when a king of Nairi, an Urartian vassaldom, south of lake Van, is mentioned whose name was ''Sa-ti-ri-a'' (from old...
