Is Kurdish the same as Kurdish Sorani?

Today, the two principal written Kurdish dialects are Kurmanji and Sorani. Sorani is, along with Arabic, one of the two official languages of Iraq and is in political documents simply referred to as “Kurdish”.

Does Kurdish use the Latin alphabet?

The Kurdish languages are written in either of two alphabets: a Latin alphabet introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932: Bedirxan alphabet or Hawar alphabet (after the Hawar magazine) and a Persian alphabet-based Central Kurdish alphabet.

What is difference between Sorani and Kurmanji?

Kurmanji is the language of the vast majority of Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and of a few in Iraq and Iran, with an estimated 15-17 million speakers in total. Sorani is the language of most Kurds in Iraq (4-6 million speakers) and Iran (5-6 million speakers).

Is Kurdish right to left?

Sorani Kurdish is one of the two official languages of Iraq (along with Arabic). Sorani is a Kurdish dialect. Sorani is mainly written using a modified Arabic script. Right-to-left Note: The majority of Kurds in Syria are educated in Arabic.

What’s the difference between Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish?

Kurmanji, Sorani (Central Kurdish) and South Kurdish form a group of Kurdish dialects. Between these dialects there are differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. In addition, the Sorani-Kurdish is, in contrast to the Kurmanji, usually written in Persian script.

What kind of alphabet does Kurmanji Kurdish use?

Some Kurmanji Kurdish is written using the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet, but most is written using Latin script. A resources that has basic Sorani phrases using Latin script instead of Arabic script is: http://kurdishairforce. blogspot.com/

Is the Kurdish language written in Arabic or Latin?

In Iraq and Iran it is written using an Arabic script, composed by Sa’id Kaban Sedqi. More recently, it is sometimes written with a Latin alphabet in Iraq. In Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, it is now written using a Latin script. Kurdish was also written in the Arabic script in Turkey and Syria until 1932.

How did the Sorani alphabet get its name?

The term Sorani, named after the former Soran Emirate, is used especially to refer to a written, standardized form of Central Kurdish written in the Sorani alphabet developed from the Arabic alphabet in the 1920s by Sa’íd Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby.