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Sorani is usually written in the Arabic Script , from right to left, in contrast to the other main Kurdish language (or dialect), Kurmanji or Kurmancî, which is spoken mainly in Turkey and in all other parts of Kurdistan and is usually written in the Roman Alphabet . Major subdialects of Central Kurdish dialects are: A line can be drawn to divide Soraní-speaking areas into a Persianized southeastern section and a more orthodox northwestern section, running from Bíjar to Kifrí , (See the map). The Ergative construction in the Persianized Soraní has begun to disappear, while it is being retained in the non-Persianized northwestern section. Also, under the influence of Arabic and Neo-Aramaic Languages , the northwest section of Soraní has acquired two Fricative Sounds ( Vocalized Pharyngeal Fricative 'ayn, and hâ), absent from other Kurdish languages, and in fact Indo-European languages. Soraní is a recent labelling after the name of the former principality of Soran . In Silêmanî ( Sulaymaniyah ), the Ottoman Empire had created a secundary school (Rushdíye), the graduates from which could go to Istanbul to continue to study there. This allowed Soraní, which was spoken in Silémaní, to progressively replace Hewramî as the literary vehicle. Mackenzie writes that the present Kurdish standard called Soranî is in fact an idealized version of the Silêmanî dialect, which uses the phonemic system of the Píjhdar and Mukrî dialects. Objections have been made to the name Soraní on the grounds that the name of one dialect, Sonarí, spoken in the region Soran should not be extended to cover a group of dialect (E. M. Rasul, Núserí Kurd, No. 4, Nov. 1971). SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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