The list of the Kurdish Unified Alphabet (Yekgirtú) with audio pronunciation of vowels. There are additional links at the bottom of this page which allow you to compare Yekgirtú with other existing Kurdish alphabets as well as Arabic, Persian and Turkish Alphabets.

Riz	Alfabé	Wéney Deng	Peyvin Kurdí		Dengan
Pos.	Alphabet	It Sounds Like in:	Some Kurdish words	IPA	Sounds
1	A   a	Car	Aza , Awaz	[a:]
2	B   b	Brother	Bira ,   Baba	[b]
3	C   c	Church	Cav ,   Cemcemall	[tʃ]
4	D   d	door	Dadar	[d]
5	E   e	Actor	Emane	[æ]
6	É   é	Hair	Ére , Hewlér	[ɛ]
7	F   f	Family	Firya ,  def	[f]
8	G   g	Gallery	Gurrgurr	[g]
9	H   h	House	Hozan, Herho	[h]
10	I   i	Sit , Bit	Bin, Kirin	[I]
11	Í   í	See	Íro , Dídí	[i:]
12	J   j	Joy	Jajig	[ʤ]
13	Jh   jh	Pleasure	Jhújhú	[ʒ]
14	K   k	Kind	Kake, Kicke	[k]
15	L   l	Life	Lekí, Lale	[l]
16	ll	Velar “L”	Dill , Mall	[ɬ]
17	M   m	Mother	Mame, Míne	[m]
18	N   n	Nation	Nan, Narín	[n]
19	O   o	Old	Oyar,   Koll	[o]
20	P   p	Policy	Pepúle, Peyv	[p]
21	Q   q	?	Qaz, Qú	[q]
22	R   r	Rain (Flapped R)	Zar, Berzan	[ɾ]
23	rr	Trill “R” as Spanish perro	Pirr , Birrín	[r]
24	S   s	Cinema	Sasún, Sis	[s]
25	Sh   sh	Sheep	Shemshall	[ʃ]
26	T   t	Tea	Temate	[t]
27	U   u	Kurd	Kurd,  Gulan	[u]
28	Ú   ú	Choose	Dúr,  Kúp	[u:]
29	Ù   ù	“U” in Swedish	Ùshim,   Mirùje	[ʉ:]
30	V   v	Vote	Mirov,   Víyan	[v]
31	W   w	Wind	Wéjhe,   Dew	[w]
32	X   x	Ch in German	Xak,   Dax	[x]
33	Y   y	Year	Yaristan,   Díyar	[j]
34	Z   z	Zoo	Zerza,  Zozan	[z]

1. The mid-open Vowel Phonemes ” i “ never comes at the start of any Kurdish words but some loan words.
2. The Consonant Phonemes in positions 13, 16, 23, 25 are digraphs (combined phonemes) with no exceptional usage and will be treated as a single letters at all time.
3. The velar ” ll “ is for non-initial positions only (ll), in Kurdish Velar L never comes in initial position.
4. The trill ” rr “ is for non-initial positions only, initial position in any Kurdish words is pronounced as a Trill ” R “.
5. TABLE 1: Unified Kurdish Consonant Phonemes
6. TABLE 2: Unified Kurdish Vowel Phonemes
7. See a comparison of the Various Kurdish Alphabets.
8. See a comparison of Kurdish, Persian, Arabic and Turkish Alphabet
9. Kurdish Unified Alphabet System, ISO 8859-1 character set

By Dilan MR Roshani