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  1. History. Current status. Phonology. Grammar. Writing system. See also. Notes. References. External links. Kurdish language. Kurdish ( Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, [11] [12] namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria .

  2. Since 1932 Kurdish has been written with the Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria. Before then, it was written with a version of the Arabic script. In parts of the former USSR it is written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was devised in 1946 by Heciyê Cindî (1908-1990), a Kurdish linguist from Armenia.

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  4. © Wikipedia. There are many languages spoken in the Kurdish region. Historically, Kurdish language belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, and was developed between 4,000 and 2,000 years ago. [1] Kurdish dialects are broken into three main groups: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish. [2]

  5. Kurdish language, a West Iranian language, one of the Indo-Iranian languages, chiefly spoken in Kurdistan. It ranks as the third largest Iranian language, after Persian and Pashto, and has numerous dialects. It is thought to be spoken by some 20–40 million people. There are three main dialect groups.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › KurdologyKurdology - Wikipedia

    Kurdology or Kurdish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Kurds and consists of several disciplines such as culture, history and linguistics. [1] Kurdish studies traces its institutional history to 1916, when in St. Petersburg in the late Russian Empire, during World War I, Kurdish was first taught as a university course ...

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