These days it is difficult to not know something about the Middle East. Even my old roommate Dass knows where Iraq is (to be fair, he was sent there on an all expenses paid vacation courtesy the US Army...). Between Arab Springs, Iranian nukes and the rise of Turkey as an emerging economic power, the relentless roulette wheel of the news cycle is going to land on at least one of them a day.
And yet, there is a lot more going on beyond the conflicts that concern mighty geopolitical powers like Europe, the US or China. Many other ethnic groups like the Kurds, Assyrians, or Copts also call the Middle East home (many for thousands of years, no less). With that in mind, it is time to once again jailbreak some linguistic research from the academies and highlight the digital research available for anyone to learn a little more about an important minority in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria: the Kurds and their language.
Starting with the The Kurdish Digital Library, which is run by the French Institut Kurde de Paris. It contains resources in many languages covering linguistic, cultural and historical topics. The free materials are all public domain books, so don't look for anything cutting edge, but they are still useful for the dedicated self-guided scholar.
For those looking for more up-to-date information, you can read the paper Kurdish Linguistics: A brief introduction, which is from 2002. This pdf scan of a scholarly article which provides background knowledge on the Kurdish language(s) and the state of scholarship. the Iranian Studies page at Harvard University contains links to two large (250+ pgs) reference grammars for both Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish. The grammars themselves are heavy on the morphology, light on phonology, but way worth a read for anyone wanting a concise introduction to these lesser studied languages.
Oh, and they also have introductions to several historical languages: Avestan, Old Persian and Manichaean Sogdian.
Finally, although Zazaki is not generally considered a Kurdish dialect anymore, it is spoken in the same region and belongs to the same West Iranian Language family as Kurdish, and it would seem a waste not to mention some of the random resources out there for this lesser known gem of a language.
Such as:
The Position of Zazaki among West Iranian Languages, by Ludwig Paul
Zazaki "Double Ezafe" as Double Case-marking by Richard Larson and Hiroko Yamakido
und...
Zur dialektalen Gliederung des Zazaki by Mesut Keskin (in German)
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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