Learn Kurdish: A Multi-level Course in Kurmanji
Learn Kurdish: A Multi-level Course in Kurmanji
Publisher: Bay Foreign Language Books | 1996 | ISBN-10: 1873722044 | ISBN-13: 978 1873722046 | English/Kurdish | PDF | 304 pages | 18.42 Mb
Publisher: Bay Foreign Language Books | 1996 | ISBN-10: 1873722044 | ISBN-13: 978 1873722046 | English/Kurdish | PDF | 304 pages | 18.42 Mb
A multi-level course for learning the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. The lessons start with the Kurdish alphabet and teaches, revises and practices grammar step by step. They finally reach an upper intermediate level.
Kurmanci is the dialect spoken by the Kurds of Turkey, Syria, the former Soviet Union, the northernmost Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan, and the northwestern Kurds in Iraq (i.e., the Kurds in the Barzani-run region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where it’s known as Bahdini or Bahdinani and is a bit different from “standard” Kurmanci.) It’s written in the Latin script in Turkey and Syria, in Arabic script in Iran and Iraq, and in Cyrillic in the former Soviet Union.
“Learn Kurdish/Dersen Kurdi”, by Baran Rizgar is a very good textbook for learning Kurmanci Kurdish. This book is 299 pages long, has excellent grammatical explanations and lots of exercises, and is a godsend for anyone interested in Kurmanci. Unfortunately, it has been out of print for many years. I have been looking for it ever since I became interested in Kurdish, but had almost given of hope of ever seeing it when daristani very kindly offered me a copy. Credit and thanks for this upload rightly belongs to him.
Learn Kurdish: A Multi-level Course in Kurmanji
