Abstract This article investigates the activities of Kurdish women aimed at protecting and revitalising language, which include collecting publishing folklore, translating into Kurdish, writing literature in Kurdish. Throughout 20th century, countries like Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, varying degrees, imposed restrictions on use Our primary focus is Turkey because this country has been most repre...

Terminology is the science that investigates relationship between scientific concepts and linguistic expressions. The title of this paper (Translating legal terms in to Kurdish: Problem Solution). This work points out translating into Kurdish has an important nationalistic patriotic significance. Additionally, it a crucial role for strengthening status government, social relationships, policy, ...


 This chapter provides a description of noun phrases in the Ardalāni variety Sorani Kurdish. In Kurdish, surface word order within Noun Phrase is head initial and post-nominal modifiers are linked to phrase by linking element called Ezafe (Windfuhr 1989). We show that realization phonologically conditioned Ardalāni, unlike other varieties However, crucially, we definite contexts, obligato...

this paper is concerned with the representation of women in kurdish proverbs based on social interpretive approach and through emic orientation. considering the constitutive function of common sense to produce social knowledge, the paper aims to explore the situation given to women in kurdish proverbs as a part of oral literature. in this respect, the women-related proverbs have been purposivel...

Discourse particles constitute an important part of spoken language; they have a wide range pragmatic functions in interactional contexts. The object the present paper is to introduce Kurdish discourse particles, clarify their different contexts, and briefly sketch some aspects grammatical properties. I will focus on Sorani since this dialect has rich inventory that not so far been investigated...