BACKGROUND Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant...

This research under the title of (Adjective Phrase in Kurdish) An attempt to identify use adjective phrases Kurdish, According ( X-Bar) theory and some other branches that are parallel this theory, branch syntactic structures constructed by lexical elements information stored mental lexicon, Reliance semantic knowledge, However, we have relied more on for appreciation analysis phrases, We resor...

The present study attempts to analyze intonation in Central Kurdish, the Sorani variety spoken Slemani Iraqi Kurdistan. Intonation refers pitch fluctuations used by a speaker express meanings. To carry out analysis, embraces theory of Cognitive Phonology. claim that there is relationship between linguistic expression and its meaning. Accordingly, it hypothesized meaning an utterance shaped part...

Noting the polyethnicity of Pakistani state, author tried to trace «Kurdish in Pakistan». It was noted that representatives various peoples and nationalities live on territory Pakistan, who speak more than 60 languages. And one small communities among them are Iraqi Kurds, whose number, according some estimates, reaches 250 people. In 1659, Kurdish historian Akhund Mohmmad Saleh Zangana wrote b...

This paper presents a lexical account of the syntax of Sorani Kurdish prepositions within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Kurdish dialects have a rich class of prepositions and prepositional collocations with a complex syntactic behavior (Edmonds 1955, Mackenzie 1961). This situation results from severla factors. The first one involves the constitution of this clas...

A sample of 526 Y chromosomes representing six Middle Eastern populations (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Kurdish Jews from Israel; Muslim Kurds; Muslim Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Authority Area; and Bedouin from the Negev) was analyzed for 13 binary polymorphisms and six microsatellite loci. The investigation of the genetic relationship among three Jewish communities revealed that Kurdis...