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KURDISH LITERATURE AS A BASIS FOR KURDISH STANDARDIZATION

2022
Specifying and deciding about Kurdish standard language is one of the issues that is investigated and discussed about it continuously. What is important is to get the answer about what is Kurdish standard language? How is the Kurdish standard language? And what are the measurements and the principles used to identify language to be standard?
MUHAMMAD, Safya, ABDULRAHMAN HAMAD, Soran   +1 more
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Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Kurdish, an Indo-European language spoken by over 30 million speakers, is considered a dialect continuum and known for its diversity in language varieties.
Sina Ahmadi, Daban Q. Jaff, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos   +3 more
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End-to-End Transformer-based Automatic Speech Recognition for Northern Kurdish: A Pioneering Approach

arXiv.org
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages remains a challenging task due to limited training data. This paper introduces a comprehensive study exploring the effectiveness of Whisper, a pre-trained ASR model, for Northern Kurdish ...
A. A. Abdullah, Shima Tabibian, Hadi Veisi, Aso Mahmudi, Tarik Ahmed Rashid   +4 more
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The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction

The South Atlantic Quarterly
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape.
Mashuq Kurt, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan
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Kurdish Politics in Iran

, 2021
Reflecting on seven decades of the Iranian Kurdish movement, this book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the politicisation of national sentiments within Iran, and the connections the movement made and developed with Kurdish groups in Iraq.
A. Hassaniyan
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Resistance from below among racialized peoples: Exploring Kurdish understandings of power

Journal of Social Issues
Understanding power and resistance dynamics from below requires focusing on the micropolitics of oppressed group existence. This involves exploring the ways members of the oppressed and resisting groups make sense of power in terms of identity, community,
Canan Coşkan, Ercan Şen
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Kurdish Studies

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Weeping without tears: Kurdish female kolbers and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran

Gender, Work & Organization
This article disentangles the nexus between coloniality, territoriality, and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran and how it shapes the lives of the Kurdish female cross‐border laborers (kolbers, in Kurdish) in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, in Kurdish).
Ahmad Mohammadpour, A. Javaheri
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A preamble to the Kurdish question: the politics of Kurdish identity

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1998
(1998). A preamble to the Kurdish question: the politics of Kurdish identity. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 9-18.
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Kurdish Women in Political Organizations: The Kurdish Movement and Pro-Kurdish Political Parties

2019
Both mainstream news about and research on women in the Kurdish movement have overwhelmingly focused on women in the PKK and their experiences in military units. Conversely, the political and social activism of Kurdish women in civilian organizations—whether political parties or civil society organizations—has largely been ignored until recently.
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