{"id":1245,"date":"2018-08-28T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:14:18","slug":"why-do-the-kurdish-speakers-need-a-unified-writing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Why do the Kurdish speakers need a unified writing system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why do the Kurdish speakers need a unified writing system?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"clear-block\">\n<div id=\"node-33\" class=\"node\">\n<p><span class=\"submitted\">Wed, 14\/05\/2008 &#8211; 15:24 \u2014 Admin<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\n<p align=\"justify\">Today, Kurds use four different writing systems. Northern Kurds use a modified Latin-Turkish alphabet; Central Kurds use a modified Arabic alphabet; Kurds in formerly USSR use a modified Cyrillic alphabet; and some Kurds in Southeastern Kurdistan still use the Persian alphabet. The lack of a unified writing system makes publications and media in one part of Kurdistan useless in other parts. Without a unified writing system, it is impossible to develop a national Electronic Documentation Archive. Such communicative dysfunction is of particular concern in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As the legend and pioneer of the modern Kurdish language\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/english\/personalities\/j.bedrxan.html\"><span id=\"gtbmisp_7\">Jeladet<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"gtbmisp_8\">Al\u00ed<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"gtbmisp_9\">Bedir Xan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in HAWAR issue 9, 1932 once said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&#8220;As I have noted before, the Kurdish nation will converge via a unified Kurdish language. The prerequisite of a unified Kurdish language is a unified Kurdish alphabet. This means that the Kurdish scholars and the literati need to develop a writing system that allows all speakers hailing from every Kurdish dialect to use that writing system.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Kurdish with a\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pluricentric_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pluricentric<\/a>\u00a0character is facing the same issues as Spanish and Portuguese languages therefor Kurdish can choose the same approach with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/the-kurdish-unified-alphabet\/\">unified Orthographic system<\/a>\u00a0to meet its enormous shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Without a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/the-kurdish-unified-alphabet\/\">unified writing system<\/a>\u00a0the link between all Kurdish speakers and the true role (Literacy, communication, documentation, archive, and etc) of Kurdish as one single language will always be missed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-block\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"terms\">\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_8 first last\"><a title=\"The main newsletter to all callers\" href=\"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?q=taxonomy\/term\/8\" rel=\"tag\">KAL newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"links\">\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"comment_forbidden first\"><a class=\"lightmodal-login lightbox-processed\" href=\"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?q=user\/login\/lightbox2&amp;destination=comment%2Freply%2F33%23comment-form\" rel=\"lightmodal[|width:250px; height:210px;]\">Login<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?q=user\/register&amp;destination=comment%2Freply%2F33%23comment-form\">register<\/a>\u00a0to post comments<\/li>\n<li class=\"statistics_counter\">13340 reads<\/li>\n<li class=\"node_translation_fa last\"><a class=\"translation-link\" title=\"\u0686\u0631\u0627 \u06a9\u0631\u062f \u0632\u0628\u0627\u0646\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0647 \u06cc\u06a9 \u0634\u06cc\u0648\u0647 \u0646\u0648\u0634\u062a\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0641\u0631\u0627\u06af\u06cc\u0631 \u0646\u06cc\u0627\u0632 \u062f\u0627\u0631\u0646\u062f\u061f\" href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/%d8%b2%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86-%da%86%db%8c%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%9f-2-1236\/\">\u067e\u0627\u0631\u0633\u06cc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do the Kurdish speakers need a unified writing system? 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