{"id":1251,"date":"2018-08-28T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2018-10-12T07:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T07:19:04","slug":"why-not-a-pan-kurdish-language-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Why not a pan-Kurdish language now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clear-block\">\n<div id=\"node-35\" class=\"node\">\n<p>The Kurdish language is vibrant and multi-dialectic and has one of the richest oral literature traditions in the world. A unified writing and scripting system will create the opportunity for all dialects to be expressed and will contribute to a common nationwide language in the future. A pan-Kurdish language at this stage will hinder development of these dialects. However, as the legend and pioneer of the modern Kurdish orthography\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/english\/personalities\/j.bedrxan.html\">Jeladet Al\u00ed Bedir Xan<\/a>\u00a0predicted in 1930&#8217;s a pan-Kurdish language might result naturally from the extensive use of a unified writing system for all dialects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\n<blockquote><p><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;<br \/>\n[J.A. Bedir Xan, HAWAR issue 9, 1932]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Expressions and words will be borrowed from different dialects so that writing styles will be more understandable among Kurds. The Kurdish media also has a role to play in making Kurdish literature and ideas more commonly known among the people of Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kurdish language is vibrant and multi-dialectic and has one of the richest oral literature traditions in the world. A unified writing and scripting system will<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}