Kurdish

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Kurdish
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: kur
  • Language family:
  • Number of speakers: 29,960,872.
  • Script:

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    Introduction

    The Kurdish languages constitute a dialect continuum, belonging to the Iranian language family, spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. The three Kurdish languages are Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish, and Southern Kurdish. A separate group of non-Kurdish Northwestern Iranian languages, the Zaza–Gorani languages, are also spoken by several million ethnic Kurds. Studies as of 2009 estimate between 8 and 20 million native Kurdish speakers in Turkey. The majority of the Kurds speak Kurmanji. Most Kurdish texts are written in Kurmanji and Sorani. Kurmanji is written in the Hawar alphabet, a derivation of the Latin script, and Sorani is written in the Sorani alphabet, a derivation of Arabic script.

    The Kurdish Verb

    Kurdish verbs agree with their subjects in person and number. They have the following major characteristics:

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