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Honorifics in Northern Kurmanji with Reference to English
Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 2020 Honorifics are elements of language that can be represented by both lexical categories like nouns and functional categories like pronouns. They are respect, formality, and distance- related concepts and they have been of major concern to many sociolinguists and pragmatists.
Parween S. Abdulaziz +1 more
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EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONS OF IMPLICATURES IN NORTHERN KURMANJI
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆThe current paper explores the functions of implicatures in Northern Kurmanji (NK). It lays concentration on the non-literal meanings (interpretation) that speakers convey beyond the literal one of either their speech or writing.
Nechirvan Jawzal, Fakhir Mohammed
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“We cannot live like Canadian”: Yazidi refugees’ perspectives on mental health, coping strategies and barriers to care [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBackgroundThe Yazidi people are a Kurdish religious minority group who have been persecuted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The complexity of the trauma the Yazidi people endured, and a limited understanding of their illness belief models ...
Jacqueline Bobyn +5 more
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Language planning in Diaspora: the Case of the Kurdish Kurmanji Dialect
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011 In this paper, we study a particular case of language planning in Diaspora through the activities of the Committee for Standardization of Kurdish Kurmanji dialect spoken by the majority of Kurds living in Turkey, in Syria and by part of the Kurds living ...
Salih Akin
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Kurmanji and Zazaki Dialects: Comparative Study on their Phonetics
International Journal of Kurdish Studies, 2019 Kurmanji and Zazaki are dialects of the theoretical language known as Kurdish. The various Kurdish dialects affirm the dialectical richness of the word and its sound, and show no indication of a decline in the spoken language. In general, the phoneme is thought to indicate the proximity or remoteness of language or its dialects – Kurdish is considered ...
Hasan Karacan
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Swear Words in Southern Kurmanji – Types, Functions and Attitudes
KOYA UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCESSwearing is a linguistic phenomenon that exists across all cultures and societies. The Kurdish culture is one of those cultures in which swear words and expressions are abundant. The current study examines the types, functions and instances of swear words and expressions and the attitudes Kurdish people of southern Kurdistan, whose dialect is southern ...
A. A. Salih
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A Phonological Comparison of Khorasan and Northern Kurmanji
KurdinameThe aim of this study is to compare the Kurmanji of Khorasan with standard north Kurdish (standard Kurmanji). The dialect of Khorasani Kurdish is north Kurdish (Kurmanji). The Kurds of Khorasan live mainly in the two districts, Northern and Razavi Khorasan. The total number of the Khorasani Kurds can be estimated almost one million.
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FORMLAIC EXPRESSIONS IN NORTHERN KURMANJI: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS
The Journal of The University of Duhok, 2019 Formulaic language covers a wide range of prefabricated linguistic units from idioms and proverbs to speech act routines, turns of phrase and collocations.
D. Tayib
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Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression among Syrian refugees residing in the Kurdistan region of Iraq [PDF]
Conflict and Health, 2019 Background Since the Syrian civil war began in March 2011, more than half of the Syrian population was forced to escape from their homes, and more than 5 million of them fled their country.
Harem Nareeman Mahmood +4 more
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گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2019 This study investigated the production of English monophthongs by Kurdish EFL learners at university level. Twenty native speakers of Northern Kurmanci (i.e.
Sabah S. Haji, Fakhir O. Mohammed
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