Description Kurdish is spoken in parts of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Afghanistan.
It is excerpted from our Words R Us system which is a derivative of Princeton Wor.
It contains over 12, 000 words in English and Kurmanji with parts of speech and definitions in English with a Kurmanji / English index included.
This dictionary uses the latin script and the Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) dialect.
When Kurdish is written with the Arabic script, Arabic loan words retain their original spelling, though they are often pronounced quite differently in Kurdish.
In parts of the former USSR it is written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet, and in Soviet Armenia it was written with a version of the Armenian alphabet.
Before then, it was written with a version of the Arabic script.
Since 1932 Kurdish has been written with the Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria.
However, for much of their history, the Kurds have prefered to use Arabic, Persian or Turkish for their literary works.
Kurdish began to appear in writing in a version of the Persian alphabet during the 7th century AD.
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We also publish resources for the Sorani dialect.
This dictionary uses the latin script and the Northern Kurdish (urmanji) dialect. - Southern Kurdish (Pehlewani) is spoken by about 3 million people in Kermanshah and Ilam provinces in northwestner Iran, and in the Khanaqin district in eastern Iraq. - Central Kurdish (Soran ) is spoken in Iraq Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Province of Iran by about 6-7 million people. - Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is spoken in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq and northwestern Iran by about 15-20 million people.
There are a number of dialects of Kurdish, which are not mutually intelligible. 7%.
In Kazakhstan, the corresponding percentage is 88. 4% of the Kurdish population speak Kurdish as their native language.
In Kyrgyzstan, 96.
In 2010 an estimiated 20-30 million people spoke Kurdish.
Description Kurdish is spoken in parts of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Afghanistan
