Kurdish language
* Laith Faily
Kurdish language is included in the group of Iranian languages, which represents a branch of the family of Indo-European languages …
So it has to do with kinship to Eastern branches of the Indo-European languages such as Farsi, Hindi, and Western branches of the family such as English, French and German. The Kurdish language has many words from Arabic, Persian and some Turkish vocabularies . It is divided into two main dialects: Karmanjia and Pahlawania, and many of them have branches of local dialects of up to 18 different dialects . The Karmanjia is divided into Behdennania or Northern Karmanjia and Surani or Southern Karmanjia, Behdennania is divided into Korani and Zaza or Aldemili.Dozens of other dialects subdivided from the last four dialects each of which prevails in one region , tribe or village .This family as the case with all Indo –European languages preceded other languages . Other peoples had lived in Kurdistan before Indo-European peoples immigrated in the early second millennium BC. Some of those previous peoples were Kutians and Hurians and Cassaites and others. The Kurds in Turkey, Syria, and some who are living in both Iran and Iraq speak Behdennani dialect, while most Kurds in Iraq and Iran speak Surani dialect. The Kurdish language before Islam, was written in the alphabet of the neighboring peoples language such as Persian for example, but after the advent of Islam the Kurdish writers began to write in Arabic characters, and most of them wrote books in Arabic as it is the language of the holy Qura'n and Islamic religion, until (Geladt Amin Ali Badrakhan) came .He developed the Kurdish alphabet by replacing Arabic characters with Latin characters.
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