Kurdish

Kurd·ish

K0115700 (kûr′dĭsh, ko͝or′-)adj. Of or relating to the Kurds or their language or culture.n. Any of a group of Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds.

Kurdish

(ˈkɜːdɪʃ) n (Languages) the language of the Kurds, belonging to the West Iranian branch of the Indo-European familyadj1. (Peoples) of or relating to the Kurds or their language2. (Languages) of or relating to the Kurds or their language

Kurd•ish

(ˈkɜr dɪʃ, ˈkʊər-)

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurds, or their language. n. 2. the Iranian language of the Kurds. [1805–15]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Kurdish - an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and RussiaIranian language, Iranian - the modern Persian language spoken in Iran
Adj.	1.	Kurdish - of or relating to Kurdistan or the Kurds or their language and culture; "Kurdish Moslems"

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Kurdish

Kurdish,

language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-IranianIndo-Iranian,
subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages, table).
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Kurdish

the language of the Kurds living in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other countries (Afghanistan, Lebanon, USSR). In the USSR, Kurdish is spoken by approximately 90,000 people (1970, census); in other countries, according to varying approximate estimates (1971), there are 7.5 to 12 million Kurdish speakers.

Kurdish belongs to the western group of Iranian languages. The most important Kurdish dialects are Kirmanji (northwestern dialect, spoken by the majority of Kurds) and Sorani (southeastern dialect); smaller dialects are Gorani, Luri, Zaza.

Kurdish has 30 consonant phonemes and nine vowel phonemes—/a/, /e/, /Ə/, /i/, /Ə /,/I/, /o/, /u/, and /Ü /—which have reduced-nonreduced opposition. There is opposition of aspirated and unaspirated voiceless occlusives (stops). Stress is dynamic. Kurdish has three cases: direct, oblique, and vocative (remnants). There are definite and indefinite articles and subject and object conjugations.

The first known Kurdish literary work was written in script derived from Arabic writing (11–12th centuries). Kurdish writing systems exist in Iraq (an Arabic-based script) and in the USSR (an Armenian-based script from 1921 to 1929, a Romanbased alphabet from 1929 to 1946, and a Russian-based alphabet since 1946).

REFERENCES

Bakaev, Ch. Kh. Govor kurdov Turkmenii. Moscow, 1962.
Bakaev, Ch. Kh. Kurdsko-russkii slovar’. Moscow, 1957.
Kurdoev, K. K. Grammatika kurdskogo iazyka. Moscow-Leningrad, 1957.
Kurdoev, K. K. Kurdskii iazyk. Moscow, 1961.
Kurdoev, K. K. Kurdsko-russkii slovar’. Moscow, 1960.
Farizov, I. O. Russko-kurdskii slovar’. Moscow, 1957.
Tsukerman, I. I. Ocherki kurdskoi grammatiki. Moscow, 1962.

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noun an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia

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