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The Kurmanji dialect, which uses the , Canada and Australia , is based on Jaladet Bedirkhan 's (Celadet Bedirxan) alphabet. Most early modern Kurdish Literature is in this dialect. The term ''Kurmanji'' or ''Kurdmanj'', which is the traditional Endonym of Kurds for themselves and their language, is believed by some scholars to mean Median Kurd .E.B. Soane, Grammar of the Kurmanji or Kurdish Language, Part I, p 5, London 1913 The older form of this word is ''Khormenj'' (also possibly ''Hormenj'', which means place or land of ''Khormens'' in Kurdish). Kurds historically lived in the area Greek sources defined as ''Armenia''; thus Greek ''Armen'' could be a rendering of local ''Khormen''. Note that modern Armenians ' name for themselves has historically been ''Haiq'' not ''Armenian''. REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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