The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]
, 2016 Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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“War is like a Blanket…:” Feminist Convergences in Kurdish and Turkish Women’s Rights Activism for Peace [PDF]
, 2017 Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists.
Al-Ali, Nadje, Tas, Latif
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The Role of The Environment and Heritage Language Instructions as an Input Factor in Literacy Development : The Case of Kurdish Bilingual Children in Finland [PDF]
, 2023 This master’s thesis is written in the field of language education within the framework of immigrant languages in host countries. It aims to investigate the impacts of the environmental conditions, such as family dynamics, peers, and heritage language ...
Goyi, Siddik
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A Simple Approach to Unify Ambiguously Encoded Kurdish Characters [PDF]
, 2016 In this study we outline a potential problem in the normalisation stage of processing texts that are based on a modified version of the Arabic alphabet. The main source of resources available for processing resource-scarce languages is raw text.
Jaf, Sardar
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Contact-induced Phonological Mergers: Transfer or Approximation [PDF]
, 2014 Sound changes in a language are considered nearly inevitable consequences of language death. The literature on sound change in obsolescencing languages has focused on whether the changes are internally or externally motivated, between convergent and ...
Skaer, Peter M., Zirak, Mahjoub
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A corpus-based approach to areal typology [PDF]
Synopsis: This volume explores word-order phenomena across a phylogenetically diverse sample of languages covering a region loosely referred to as the Western Asian Transition Zone, approximately corresponding to western Iran, northern Iraq, eastern ...
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The Application of English Theories to Sorani Phonology [PDF]
, 2019 This thesis investigates phonological processes in Sorani Kurdish within the framework of Element Theory. It studies two main varieties of Sorani spoken in Iraq which are Slemani and Hawler. Since the phonology of SK is one of the least studied areas in
AHMED, ZHWAN,OTHMAN
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The phrase structure of two dialects of Kurmanji Kurdish: Standard dialect and Muş dialect
, 2020 Bu çalışmanın amacı Kurmançi Kürtçesi'nin öbek yapısını özellikle öze geçişlilik (ergatif) üzerine odaklanarak incelemektir. Kurmançi'nin, tümceciğin geçişlilik ve zaman özelliklerine bağlı olarak iki farklı durum örüntüsüne sahip olduğu varsayılmıştır; geçmiş zamanda olmayan geçişli yapılarda yalın (nominatif) örüntü ve geçmiş zaman geçişli ...
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National Identity Discourses in Contemporary Bahdinani Kurdish Poetry in Iraq [PDF]
, 2019 The dissertation examines how Kurdish national identity has been culturally constructed through the contemporary Bahdinani Kurdish poetry in Iraq, specifically from the first Kurdish autonomy after Adar Agreement in 1970 to the Kurdish Independence ...
Ali, YH
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Community languages in higher education : towards realising the potential [PDF]
, 2008 This study, Community Languages in Higher Education: Towards Realising the Potential, forms part of the Routes into Languages initiative funded by the Higher Education Funding Council in England (HEFCE) and the Department for Children, Schools and ...
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