An Assessment of Narrative Genres in Kurdish Folklore (Epos, Bayt and Narrative Songs)

In recent years, Kurdish folklore has seen extensive research and significant progress in analysis classification. However, despite the magnitude abundance of folklore, scientific studies on definition, differentiation, determination literary boundaries oral literature genres have been inadequate. The most problematic issue identification specific what to call them. narrative are especially prone obfuscate definitive boundaries. Narrative types long narratives: epos (epic), bayt (with metres), songs (storytelling). Although divided into plain verse, prose, verse-prose, prose is not examined this article aim which introduce per se, determine their boundaries, reveal characteristics. For this, forms epos, bayt, compared similarities differences determined terms content, shape, performer, motif, theme, geography, cultural region.