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Notes on the Phonology of Southern Kurmanji [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1922 The allocation of its proper place among Iranian languages to Kurmanji (Kurdish) has been rendered well-nigh impossible up to the present by the lack of material available for examination. The most careful Orientalists tend to consider it a non-Persian language, notably Justi, Darmesteter, and Socin (in the Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie).
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Kurmanji and Zazaki dialects: Comparative study on their phonetics
, 2020 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.
Karacan, Hasan
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Everyday ethnicity of Kurmanji speaking Kurds in Iran : a case in political anthropology [PDF]
, 2020 This dissertation is an attempt to pose a challenge to the reified image of Kurdishness and Kurdayeti (awakening Kurdish nationalism), from an ethnographical perspective.
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swadesh: Swadesh list for kurmanji
, 2015 <p>swadesh list for kurmanji</p ...
Adel Rahimi (5269153), Adel Rahimi
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
, 2020 In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B.
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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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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 22-39, January 2026.ABSTRACT Colonial monolingual norms are a present oppressive force within schooling spaces, with a direct assimilative target on the linguistic practices of historically marginalized peoples, histories, and knowledge systems. For racially minoritized multilingual refugee learners, the space of in‐school science learning can be experienced as an ...
Sophia Thraya +2 more
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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