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who commanded sizeable economic and cultural prosperity. However, the language of Marwanid administration and culture life was reported to be exclusively Arabic. Under the Ayyubids, many scholars note that Kurmanji gained a privileged status but admit that there is a paucity of evidence due to the
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and after strong criticism from parts of the community, the authorities chose to ratify the charter by mentioning both "Kurdish" and "Yezidi" as two separate languages. This resulted in the term Êzdîkî being used by some researchers when delving into the question of minority languages in Armenia,
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A growing interest in the use of Kurmanji in literature began from the 14th century on when Kurdistan had relative political stability and economic prosperity. However, it was not until the 16th century, that a Kurmanji literary tradition arose. During this era,
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reports that the use of Kurmanji is declining in Turkey even when the language is used as a language of wider communication (LWC) by immigrants to Turkey, and that the language is threatened because it is losing speakers.
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Ezdîkî is used for Kurmanji to differentiate themselves from Kurds. While Ezdîkî is no different from Kurmanji, some attempt to prove that Ezdîkî is an independent language, including claims that it is a
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Although Kurds are mentioned in the pre-Islamic period, there is no information of the Kurdish language before the Islamic period. The first mention of Kurmanji Kurdish is by the medieval Chaldean author
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since most Kurdish-speakers in Armenia are Yazidis. As a consequence of this move, Armenian universities offer language courses in both Kurmanji and Êzdîkî as two different dialects.
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Changing Identities: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (Collection of Selected Works, Edited by V. Voronkov, S. Khutsishvili, J. Horan), Heinrich Böll Stiftung South Caucasus
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Majid Hassan Ali (15 February 2019). "The identity controversy of religious minorities in Iraq: the crystallization of the Yazidi identity after 2003".
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Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
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regions and quoted a Kurmanji poem by local poet in his work. Prominent scholars from this period, whose works are preserved today include
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and the presence of facultative phonemes. For example, Kurmanji Kurdish distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated
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Sheyholislami, Jaffer (2021), "The History and Development of Literary Central Kurdish", in Bozarslan, Hamit (ed.),
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Kurmanji may have potentially been a literary language from the 10th to the 12th century with the formation of many
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Bahdinan Kurmanji - A grammar of the Kurmanji of the Kurds of Mosul division and surrounding districts of Kurdistan
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in which few words have been identified in a mostly indecipherable text. The first proper text in Kurmanji is a
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wrote most of his poetry and theological commentaries in Kurmanji. Furthermore, during his trips to Kurdistan,
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Reference Grammar with Selected Readings for Kurmanji Kurdish, written by W. M. Thackston (Harvard University)
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As for their language, the Yezidis themselves, in an attempt to avoid being identified with Kurds, call it
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The first known written attestation of Kurmanji is from the geographical work Mu'jam ul-Buldān by
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Arakelova, Victoria (2001). "Healing Practices among the Yezidi Sheikhs of Armenia".
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and placed Kurdish under state protection. However, because of the divided
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New Social Movements and the Armenian Question in Turkey: Civil Society vs
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Kurdish Kurmanji Lemmatization and Spell-checker with Spell-correction.
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of great variability. Loosely, six dialect areas can be distinguished:
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Phonological features in Kurmanji include the distinction between
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Geographic distribution of the Kurdish languages spoken by Kurds
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also purported the existence of an alphabet for the language.
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lack of written Kurmanji documents from the Ayyubid court.
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Kurdish language, history, books and latest news articles.
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Northern Kurmanji or Serhed Kurdish, spoken mainly in the
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Kurmanji is also the common and ceremonial language of
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regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
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Witzlack-Makarevich, Kai; Wulff, Nadja (2017-08-08).
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immigrants in Turkish Kurdistan also speak Kurmanji.
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and all prayers are written and spoken in Kurmanji.
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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
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Kurdistan
Kurds
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Western
Northwestern
Kurdish
Writing system
Hawar alphabet
Sorani alphabet
Cyrillic script
Russia
Armenia
Kurdistan Region
Rojava
Armenia
ISO 639-1
ku
ISO 639-3
kmr
Glottolog
nort2641
Linguasphere
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Kurmanji
Sorani

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