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	Station Information - Kurdish language
		Kurdish dialects are members of the northwestern subdivision of the Iranic branch of this largest family of languages in the world.
		The Kurdish language was derived from the ancient "Median" language or "Proto-Kurdish".
		Kurdish dialects can be divided into three primaries groups: 1) the Northern Kurdish dialects group also called Kurmanjí and Badínaní, 2) Central Kurdish dialects group also called Soraní (see also basic linguistic differences between these two major branches) and 3) the Southern Kurdish dialects group also called Pehlewaní or "Pahlawanik" group in some sources.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kurdish_language.html (364 words)

	Kurdish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Kurdic languages (also called dialects of Kurdish) are spoken in the region loosely called Kurdistan including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
		In some Kurdish sources the Persid language of Luri, a south west Iranian language has been classed as a subgroup of Kurdic languages.
		Kurdish in Iran and Iraq is written using Arabic alphabet.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /k/ku/kurdish_language.html (700 words)

	Kurdistan - Kurdish Conflict
		Kurdish migration--in addition to being part of the general trend of urban migration--was prompted by the escalating armed conflict with the central authorities in Baghdad, the destruction of villages and land by widespread bombing, and such natural disasters as a severe drought in the 1958-61 period.
		In Kurdish, the name “Kurd” means “warrior” or “ferocious fighter.” By the time of the Islamic conquest of the northern Middle East in the 7th century AD, the name “Kurd” was already in use as a term to designate the population of Western Iranians in the Zagros Mountains.
		Kurdish Muslims are mostly of the Sunni branch, but mainly follow the Shafi’i school of Sunni Islam, which distinguishes them from the majority of the Iraqi Arab Sunni Muslim population, which is primarily of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/kurdistan.htm (2175 words)

	www.LALISH.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to one variant of the popular Kurdish epic story of Mem and Zin, Mem's mother was a lady who was living near the sea and once met riders approaching her so that horses were moving on the surface of the sea.
		As far as Kurdish interrelation with al-Hallaj is concerned, I must note that not only his homeland was partly populated by the Kurds and is adjacent to their homeland, but his followers, too, were partly Kurds; they lived in Kurdistan and might have been named after him.
		As far as southern Kurdish dialects and literary norms are concerned, the word with the notion 'about', 'concerning' is spelled as either derbarêyê (seemingly borrowed from Persian) or lebarei.
	www.lalish.com /helac.htm (5532 words)

	The Kurdish People: an Analysis by language, geography, religion and ethnicity
		The purpose of the research was to clarify the names of the various Kurdish groups, and approximate populations, correlated as possible with religious sects and place names.
		While there is a level of common ethnic identity among most of the Kurdish peoples, particularly in terms of nationalistic aspirations, there is still notable animosity or suspicion between the various religious sects that divide the Kurds.
		Southern peoples are mixed at an early stage in history with another early population called Gorani.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/kurds.html (2455 words)

	"The Kurdish Reawakening in Syria" (April 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although fueled by popular frustration in the Kurdish community, the riots were not an entirely spontaneous eruption, but a politically timed initiative to pressure the Assad regime in the face of heightened Syrian-US tensions and Iraqi Kurdish political gains.
		In 1957, the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria (KDPS) was founded by a broad coalition of prominent Kurdish intellectuals calling for recognition of Kurdish national rights and an end to the marginalization of Kurds in the administration.
		Syrian Kurdish activists often received a hostile reception at political conferences organized by the large Kurdish Diaspora in Europe because their activities were seen a threat to the PKK.
	www.meib.org /articles/0404_s1.htm (4268 words)

	Iran - Kurds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The dialects are divided into northern and southern groups, and it is not uncommon for the Kurds living in adjoining mountain valleys to speak different dialects.
		An estimated forty Kurdish tribes and confederations of tribes were still recognized in the mid-1980s.
		Mahabad, which has been a center of Kurdish resistance against Persian authority since the time of the Safavid monarch Shah Abbas (1587-1629), was again at the forefront of the Kurdish autonomy struggle.
	countrystudies.us /iran/40.htm (611 words)

	Centenary of the Kurdish Media
		Although the first Kurdish newspaper was in Kurmanji and appeared in Arabic script, due to the suppression of Kurmanji dialect in Turkey, Sorani has become the dominant literary dialect of Kurdish in Southern Kurdistan.
		The greater factor that the Kurdish media has to tackle is the illiteracy of many Kurds in reading/writ ing in their mother tongue which is caused by the ban on teaching Kurdish.
		In contrast to Kurdish Radio programs (which were used in the propaganda war between different rival countries to excite the Kurdish minorities or by some Kurdish parties), the invention of TV didn't have much effect on the "air" (radio) wars until this decade when TV satellite broadcasting became possible.
	www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~siamakr/Kurdish/MEDIA/centenary.html (3940 words)

	Kurdish/Iraqi relations
		Furthermore, the Kurdish point of view in supporting the Arab struggle for liberation and unity, was made very clear in a memorandum given to the meetings between Egypt, Iraq and Syria in Cairo and also to the Arab world.
		The Kurdish external relations led to more tension with the regime and was also a factor in the deadlock, in the implementation, that led to the war of 1974.
		After all those events, this is a natural development in the Kurdish demands because, unlike autonomy, federalism is a guarantor for the rights and existence of the Kurdish people, especially, when they deal with a dictatorial and a totalitarian regime, like Saddam¹s one, which does not respect the rule of law.
	www.casi.org.uk /discuss/2001/msg00028.html (5001 words)

	Workers World March 13, 2003: Kurdish people resis U.S. manipulation
		Kurdish people and their allies are speaking out against the planned U.S. war and occupation of Iraq.
		In late February, Kurdish groups that supported the 1991 Gulf War and are friendly to Washington warned that Kurds in northern Iraq would resist any intervention in the region by the Penta gon's Turkish allies.
		Kurdish activists and their supporters also raised slogans opposing Turkey's plans to intervene in northern Iraq; demanding freedom for imprisoned Kadek leader Abdulah Ocalan; and in solidarity with Turkish and Kurdish political prisoners on a "death fast"hunger strike.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/kurds0313.php (1053 words)

	KurdishMedia.com - Articles and opinion regarding Kurdish issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was not just the West, of course a significant number of Kurds also became refugees in the region and Iraq deported thousands of Kurds to Southern Iraq as a punishment for their role in the Kurdish national movement.
		Kurdish children should be taught about democracy, civil society and respect for human rights.
		The current Kurdish parliament and both administration, strictly speaking, are not legitimate, as the election was effective only until 1996.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=1050 (2870 words)

	Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (KWAHK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurdish Women Action Against Honour killing (KWAHK) is a network of Kurdish and non-Kurdish activists, lawyers and academic researchers.
		The Kurdish people did not participate in the creation of the Iraqi laws and the Iraqi laws should not be imposed on the Kurdish people in southern Kurdistan.
		The Kurdish Parliament and government in southern Kurdistan should amend its constitution to make honor killing to be the first-degree murder crime and those who commit such crimes to be punished accordingly.
	www.kurdmedia.com /kwahk/feedback.htm (718 words)

	Amir Hassanpour: The Identity of Hewrami Speakers
		Northern Kurdish is more archaic than the other dialects in both its phonetic and morphological structure, and it may be inferred that the greater development of the Central and Southern dialects has been caused by their closer contact with other (Iranian) languages...
		In Central and Southern Kurdish the distinction between v and w is lost, in favour of w.
		While Kurdish nationalists criticize the philologist's claims from a primarily political perspective (its negative implications for Kurdish nation-building), this paper is concerned with theoretical and epistemological issues.
	www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~siamakr/Kurdish/Papers/Hassanpour98.html (4922 words)

	A proposal for a KURDISH CORPUS INITIATIVE
		This aspect is particularly important for Kurdish language, as, because of the political division endured by the different areas of Kurdistan, sources (when they have fortunately been kept in good condition) are stored in different places, use different writing systems with which researchers and sometimes Kurds themselves are not always familiar.
		Beyond superficial affinities with southern Kurdish dialects, and specially Faylî, it is then clearly established that Lorî must be considered apart, from a linguistic as well as cultural point of view.
		This notation, used in the Kurdish areas of Iran and Iraq, is based on a modified alphabet, and gives to the Kurdish dialects of the central group (Soranî), for which it was thought, a quasi non-defective writing, in which (with one exception) all vowels are written, and on the line, as consonants.
	www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~siamakr/Kurdish/Corpus/1-project.htm (9169 words)

	KURDISH LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurdish, as a term, is often used to refer to two separate but closely related language variants: Kurmanji (or Northern Kurdish) and Kurdi (Southern Kurdish).
		Estimates of ethnic Kurds, not all of whom speak Kurdish today because of assimilation, also are high.
		A modified Arabic script is used to write Kurdish in Iraq and Syria, but Kurds in Turkey use a Roman-based script.
	computingws1.gold.ac.uk /ma001fa/Language2.htm (268 words)

	KurdishMedia News - Daily Kurdish news updates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		London (KurdishMedia.com) 28 May 2004: Jalal Amin Beg, a Kurdish patriotic advocate, passed away at the age of 93 on Friday, at 1:00 am local time, in the Southern Kurdish city of Sulemani, where he was buried in a public ceremony.
		Jalal Amin Beg was one of the prominent officers of the Republic of Kurdistan - Mehabad of 1946.
		From 1963 to 1965, he was with the Kurdish movement and again in 1974-75.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=4994 (466 words)

	Kurdistan Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Intellectuals in Sulaimani in Southern Kurdistan are planning to organize a demonstration on Saturday to express their support to Eastern Kurdistan's struggle against the Islamic regime of Iran.
		Kurdish witnesses in Eastern Kurdistan say that the Iranian security forces killed at least 11 Kurdish demonstrators in a clash Wednesday in the city of Saqiz.
		Southern Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani accused the Iraqi electoral commission of having bad intentions against the Kurds.
	home.cogeco.ca /~kurdistanobserver/news.html (984 words)

	Interview: Abdulaziz Ta'ib Ahmed (January 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Following the 1991 Kurdish uprising and establishment of the safe-haven, Abdulaziz assumed the governorship of the Dahuk governorate, one of the three governorates which today make-up the Kurdish-controlled region in northern Iraq.
		Kurdish books, which are printed in Baghdad, are not distributed in the areas that are under the authority of Iraqi Government because no Kurdish schools remain there.
		The aim of the Kurdish people is to reach this goal, but this will have to be implemented and developed more fully in a Kurdistani scientific and academic conference.
	www.meib.org /articles/0201_iri.htm (1937 words)

	www.KurdistanWeb.org § KurWeb §
		The Kurdish education system should provide a platform for learning the bases of true democracy.
		Although always smiling or laughing, Bahman Ghobadi is not a happy man.The reason he is not happy is because as a film director in a country where his industry is still stuttering, he must take responsability for the entire process of every aspect of film making.
		I have only 5 per cent left for creation", complains Bahman Ghobadi during a discussion at a Kurdish Film Festival, held in Douarnenez, in Brittany, in western France.
	www.kurdistanweb.org (185 words)

	Materials for learning Kurdish - Sorani - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As brief background, Sorani is the so-called “southern” dialect of Kurdish, spoken by the “Talabani’ Kurds in Iraq and by most of the Iranian Kurds.
		In terms of dictionaries, the now out-of-print “Kurdish Dictionary” by Taufiq Wahby and C. Edmonds, 179 pages, all in Latin script, is still very useful, and is worth photocopying from a library if you can find a copy.
		There’s a new Sorani Kurdish to English dictionary available, entitled “The Sharezoor”, by Shafiq Qazzaz, 601 pages and in the standard Arabic script with Latin transliteration, this is very good.
	www.phrasebase.com /archive/46_materials_for_learning_kurdish___sorani.html (714 words)

	Armenian Diaspora - Iranian University to Start Teaching Kurdish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Iran, 90 percent of Kurds live in villages, the rest are nomadic.
		Kurdish, as a term, is often used to refer to two separate but
		Estimates of ethnic Kurds, not all of whom speak Kurdish
	www.armeniandiaspora.com /archive/9127.html (369 words)

	U.S. Pilots in Gulf Use Southern Iraq for Practice Runs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Navy pilots are conducting mock strikes against airfields, towers and other military sites in Iraq, acquainting themselves with targets they may be called on to strike as the Bush administration prepares for a possible military campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.
		The no-flight zones in southern and northern Iraq were established after the 1991 Persian Gulf war to prevent Iraq from carrying out airstrikes against Shiites in southern Iraq and Kurdish forces in the north of the country.
		The Super Hornet patrol was prepared to attack it with bunker-busting bombs, weapons designed to penetrate concrete and guided to their targets by satellite.
	www.intelmessages.org /Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/2318.html (1795 words)

	kare11.com : Minneapolis, St. Paul
		Other attacks in Baghdad, the northern town of Tal Afar and the southern city of Samawah killed four Iraqis.
		But in large areas of the country where the Sunni Arab-led insurgency still roils, few went to the polls, either because of objections to the holding elections under foreign occupation or for fear of retribution.
		Kurdish political leader Jalal Talabani said he would seek the office of either president or prime minister when the National Assembly convenes.
	www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75030 (1145 words)

	BBC News \| MONITORING \| 500 Kurdish refugees arrive by boat off southern Italy
		It said the vessel, which had come from Turkey, was reported to be carrying 500 people, most of whom were Kurds.
		The report, timed at 1300 gmt, said the boat was being escorted to the southeastern port of Otranto by Italian coastguards and was expected to dock shortly.
		BBC Monitoring (http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk), based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/world/monitoring/43935.stm (114 words)

	Kurdish Language - MavicaNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurdish is classified by linguists as belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family; it is most closely related to the various dialects of Persian, to Pashto spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to Baluchi spoken in Pakistan.
		kurdish language studies: includes online kurdish-english, kurdish-french dictionaries with more than 12000 entries each, and educational word games in kurdish.
		Kurdish people also reside in Armenia, Georgia, Azarbaijan, and even Khorasan, and Turkmenistan.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/ukr/1270.html (369 words)

	Natural Human Language [encyclopedia]
		English and Swedish are two examples of languages from the Germanic branch; Persian and Kurdish are examples of the Iranian branch.
		One of the standard beliefs about learning a language is that it takes place in a "critical period" which begins when the child is mature enough to learn speech, but not past that period.
		Most of this theory was built around the "Wild Boy of Aveyron" who was found in the forests of southern France in 1797.
	artzia.com /Society/Language (1490 words)

	Kurdish Translation Service - English to Kurdish Translators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We realise that you still want high quality Kurdish translation done on time and at a reasonable price.
		Professional translators whose native language is Kurdish perform our English to Kurdish translation.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and have fluent Kurdish perform our Kurdish to English translation.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/kurdish_translation.shtml (265 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Kurdish rebels kill three guards in southern Turkey, reject appeal for ceasefire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurdish rebels kill three guards in southern Turkey, reject appeal for ceasefire
		ISTANBUL - Suspected Kurdish rebels killed three security guards in an attack in southern Turkey yesterday, and a Kurdish rebel commander rejected an appeal to restore a unilateral ceasefire.
		The three government-hired guards were killed in an overnight attack in a southeastern village, officials said.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_world_890845_15/06/2004_43936 (231 words)

	01/27/03 (KURDS/IRAQ) Kurdish Front; Suffering End?; Oil Trade
		The television adaptation of "Mam oo Zeen", a centuries old Kurdish legend, was aired in 30 episodes during the holy month of Ramadan.
		Regarding the Iraqi opposition conference which was convened in London, leader Barzani highly appreciated the role of the Kurdish delegation in ensuring the success of the conference and he considered that the establishment of federalism as a principle for future rule in Iraq was an important historical achievement for our people.
		Jamawar, an independent southern Kurdish newspaper reported that as the US anticipated attack on Iraq becoming close, Al-Badr Force of the [Iran-based] Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq consolidate its positions in the regions near Kirkuk.
	www.kurd.org /newsletters/20030127173924.html (7941 words)

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