Last
updated: 25 October 2007
Kurdish/Kurmanji
Language
Family: Western Iranian group of Iranian branch
of Indo-European
Location: Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria
Related Languages: Persian-Farsi
RAPID
REFERENCE
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Middle
East Studies Association (MESA)
From About: "MESA is a private nonprofit, nonpolitical organization
of scholars and other persons interested in the study of the Middle East,
North Africa and the Islamic world. MESA is dedicated to promoting high standards
of scholarship and instruction, to facilitating communication among scholars
through annual meetings and publications, and to promoting cooperation among
those who study the Middle East."
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Association
for Persian Language, Linguistics and Computing
(APL2C)
Administrated from the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. "The
main focus of APL2C is to provide an environment for further communication
among people working on different aspects of Iranian languages and people
working in Speech processing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), in Computational
Linguistics and Linguistics."
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Kurdish
Worldwide Resources
"KWR Believes in an Independent Kurdistan." Links (not all functioning) to Kurds
and Kurdistan, Land and Ecology, Nation, History Language, Literature and more.
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KurdistanWeb
From About on English version: "The Kurdistan Web (KurWeb) is a platform
providing independent information on Kurds and their human heritage." Link
here for Kurdish
version.
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Kurdish
Links
Kurdish News, Links and Resources, Kurdish Organizations, Institutes and
Political Parties, Journals and Newspapers, Good Home Pages, Miscellaneous.
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A
Short Grammar of Kurmanji Kurdish
"This is a short grammar of Kurmanji Kurdish from Baran Rizgar dictionary
of Kurdish-English and English Kurdish [Rizgar 1993]. Baran gives a comprehensive
and systematic account of grammar of Kurmanji Kurdish (as spoken in Kurdistan
region in Turkey). He discusses noun and verb inflection and illustrates the
concept of ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish (Kurdica editor)."
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Kurdish-English-Kurdish
Dictionary
From University of Arizona. Kurdish-English-Kurdish online dictionary with
12000 words. Also has Kurdish-French-Kurdish version, Kurdish Spelling Check,
and "Hard Games" - Try to guess the Kurdish word inside the box.
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Online
Kurdish-English Dictionary
"This is an On-line Kurdish-English dictionary, under construction. Right
now it contains only words with the alphabet A and B within limits, it will be
completed successively."
NOTE: The
Kurdish people have no homeland and are spread
throughout an area that includes parts of Iran,
Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The exception is the
Kurdistan Regional Government, the authority
that rules over much of the liberated area of
Iraqi Kurdistan. Consequently, country study
resources are few. Additional information on
Kurds may be found in links to the above-noted
countries which are included at the end of this
section.
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Human
Rights Watch - Site Search for Kurdistan
Human
Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the
human rights of people around the world. The "Info
by Countries" link on the homepage provides
index to individual countries where the organization
finds abuses.
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Kurdistan
Regional Government
"The KRG is... the authority that rules over much of the liberated area
of Iraqi Kurdistan. Its domain includes the provinces of Erbil and Duhok with
the city of Erbil as its capital." See Resources for
articles and news on KRG.
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Kurdistan
Media Links
Large collection of links to Radio Stations, Newspapers, Magazines etc.,
in Kurdish, Farsi, and English.
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Rojname
News Network
Television and radio programs and more can be downloaded from this Independent
Kurdish Web Portal.
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Kurdish
Observer
Kurdish Observer provides news from all over the world, carried out by Özgür
Politika correspondents and news agencies
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Hawlati
"Your Weekly Newspaper from the heart of Kurdistan Hawlati is a general political
weekly issued by Ranj print - shop." In Kurdish and English.
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