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
MAP OF KURDISTAN

Kurdish Scripts Conversion tools

The Kurdish language is rich in diversity, expressed through multiple writing systems, including Kurdish-Arabic, Kurdish-Cyrillic, and Kurdish-Latin scripts. To unify these systems under the Kurdish Unified […]
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 […]