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Seminar
WiSe 20/21: Sorani I
Khanna Usoyan
Comments
The Kurdish language belongs to the north-western Iranian language, to the Indo-European language family. There is no standard classification for the divisions of Kurdish dialects. The majority of scholars agree that there are three main dialect groups. Kurmanji, which belongs to northern Kurdish, is spoken by Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenia, the Ukraine, Russia, and in Iran. In Iran the majority of Kurds, nevertheless, speak central Kurdish, called Sorani. close
Suggested reading
The students will be supplied with learning material for the class. Reading literature:
- ABDULLAH, J.J. and MCCARUS, E.N., 1967, Kurdish Basic Course. Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq, Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press.
- BLAU, J., 1980, Manuel de Kurde. Dialecte Sorani. Grammaire, textes de lecture, vocabulaire kurde-français et français-kurde, Paris: Librairie de Kliensieck.
- MERCHANT, L.T., 2013, Introduction to Sorani Kurdish. The Principal Kurdish Dialect spoken in the Regions of Northern Iraq and Western Iran, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Amazon-Online-Selbstverlag.
- THACKSTON, W.M., Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings. Available online: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Sorani/sorani_1_grammar.pdf
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15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2020-11-04 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-11-11 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-11-18 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-11-25 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-12-02 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-12-09 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2020-12-16 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-01-06 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-01-13 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-01-20 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-01-27 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-02-03 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-02-10 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-02-17 08:15 - 09:45
Wed, 2021-02-24 08:15 - 09:45