Orthography

15/03/2011

History of Kurdish Orthography

Like other non-Arabic speaking peoples who adopted the Arabic alphabet after the Islamic conquest of the seventeenth century, Kurds have started using a modified version of […]
16/06/2009

Kurdish Scripts Conversion tools

  In an attempt to bridge the Kurdish writing systems with Kurdish Unified Alphabet (Yekgirtú) a set of computer auto generating conversion applications have been introduced by Kurdish Academy of Language KAL. These will […]
03/04/2009

Romanization of the Kurdish alphabet

Another alternative to an inefficient Arabic-based Kurdish alphabet has been the adaptation of the Roman script. The use of Latin letters for writing Kurdish dates back […]
23/03/2009

Orthography

The potential of these textbooks to aid in the codifying of Kurdish was not realized, however, due to the government’s policy of restricting native tongue education […]