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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Sep 17, Sep 5, by Razwan. Sep 2, Aug 27, Aug 13, Aug 8, by Muhammad Khal. Jul 30, Jul 16, Jul 10, A short summary of this paper. The Kurdish Latin alphabet is the most frequently used alphabet for Kurmanji.
It is used in the parts of Kurdistan that are situated within the borders of Turkey and Syria, and by the large Kurdish diaspora community in Europe and North America from these two countries. The alphabet based on Arabic script is used in Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan, while Cyrillic is used only in ex-Soviet countries. In this course we will be using the Roman-based alphabet. There are 8 vowels and 23 consonants in the standard Kurdish Roman-based alphabet.
In the chart below the Kurdish letters are listed and you can listen to their pronunciation by clicking on the sound file image next to each letter. Table 2. They are some special forms of the plosives and affricates. Native speakers are aware of these sounds, and can hear and produce them readily. For learners, however, they are difficult to perceive and at this stage need not be introduced.
You will still be understood even if you do not produce them correctly; we will discuss them in a later lesson with some examples. Two students sit next to each other in the first lesson at their university. They introduce themselves to each other, saying their names and where they are from. Good day, my name is Zeyneb. What is your name?
Good day, my name is Ehmed. Where are you from, Ehmed? I am from Diyarbekir. And you? I am from Diyarbekir too. How nice. I am lit. I, too, am very happy. Are you a Kurd? Yes, I am a Kurd, and you? I am a Kurd too. Oh, the teacher is coming. OK lit. We will talk later. How are you sg.? How are you pl.? Their uses will be explained below. Intransitive verbs are verbs which cannot take a direct object, e. Instead, endings are added to the last word of the sentence that indicate the person involved.
These endings are actually written separately as though they were independent words, but they are really unstressed short forms pronounced as though they were part of the preceding word. They have slightly different forms depending on whether the preceding word ends in a vowel or consonant.
Two students are meeting in the school canteen. Fill in the blanks from their conversation with the forms presented above. Dara ye. Daner ! Dara Dara : Oxir be! Exercise 2. Fill in the blanks according to the information given in the dialogue above.
Daner e. Ez kurd …. Exercise 3. Below, there are questions for you! Please write true answers for the questions. Dayika min naxebite. I am 20 years old. I go to university in Istanbul. I live here, in Istanbul. But my home is in Merdin. My mother and father live there. He is 45 years old. My father is a shopkeeper.
His shop is not very big. My mother does not work. She is a housewife. My mother comes here every year. I have a sister. Her name is Zelikha and she is 10 years old. Her eyes are black and her hair is long. She goes to primary school. During the holidays I go to them. How old are you? Asli: How old are your mother and father? Asli: My mother is 48 and my father is What about yours? Asli: How old are your sisters and brothers? Asli: I have only one sister. Her name is Sheyda and she is 10 years old.
May God grant them a long life! Asli: Thank you lit. May you be healthy, may God give you a long life. You more healthy. Kurmanji Kurdish, Lesson 2 5 2. The negation marker ne can not come right before or after the copula. It is important to know the gender of a noun because it affects the form of the case marker, and of the Ezafe marker see D below.
Nouns that denote persons, or higher animals, have the gender corresponding to their meaning. But for nouns denoting objects, you just have to learn the gender with the noun. C The indefiniteness suffix A bare noun in Kurmanji can have a definite reading, or a very general reading, depending on the context.
There is no definite article in Kurmanji corresponding to English the. In standard orthography it is written as part of the noun. Kurdish is like French or Spanish in that the noun comes first, and then it is followed by the attribute.
We refer to the initial noun as the head noun. The Ezafe particle takes different forms according to the gender and the number of the head noun. In the example above, the head noun is masculine and singular. In this case, it always takes an initial -y. And your one? You have already learned the Oblique case of the personal pronouns see Lesson 1.
We will learn about the Oblique case of nouns in later lessons. Yek ji van dersan edebiyat e. Translation: I am a student. My name is Salih and I am 22 years old. After washing my face lit. I have five courses. I like my courses very much because we read very interesting books in the courses and have good discussions. I have many friends at the unversity. Some of my friends are Turks and some are Kurds. I speak Kurmanji Kurdish with my Kurdish friends, but unfortunately some of Kurdish friends do not know Kurdish.
After lunch and tea we go back to the courses. In the afternoon I have only two lessons. One of these lessons is literature. In literature class we read texts of English literature. I particularly like the poems of T. I, too, sometimes write poetry. My uncle is a teacher and his wife is a lawyer. I generally study lit.
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