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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]