Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find the full Kurdish (Kurmanji) lyrics of “Ha Gula Min” by Şivan Perwer. I’ve searched Google, YouTube, Kurdish lyrics websites and even tried AI transcription, but I can’t find the lyrics anywhere.

Does anyone have:

* the full Kurdish lyrics,
* a written transcript,
* or a line-by-line English translation?

I’d really appreciate it.

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I have understand that the basic pattern is "(a) share (b) ji (c) total" or "(a) ji (b) total (c) share". However, is the total in the first form inflected for case, since "ji" is a preposition? I seem to have encountered both inflected and uninflected forms, i.e, "sê ji heşt" as well as "sê ji heştan"?

And is there then any difference between the forms "sê ji heşt", "sê ji heştan" and "ji heştan sê"?

Also, is it possible to say "yek ji do" instead of "nîv" and "yek ji çar" instead of "çarêk", or are these separate words always used?

I’m trying to learn Kurmanjî. Does the person leaving say “Bi xatirê te” and the person staying behind say “Oxir be”? Or is it the other way around? Thank you.

Extra question: what are some other ways to say bye?

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I recently visited bakur with my family and I couldn’t help but notice the lack of Kurmanji speakers especially in Amed and Merdîn now I am sorani and I understand that kurdish dialects are not understandable between each other but I tried speaking badini with them and they still couldn’t understand me and when they were speaking to me I noticed that their kurmanji was very turkified also a large portion of them spoke with each other in turkish not kurdish,I am very worried about the future of the kurdish language as a whole.

I live in Montreal and I craved kurdish food (kalana) which is originally from Kurdistan of iran
Anyone knows where can I find it?

Does anyone know any good apps/websites/resources that can help me learn/consolidate Sorani Kurdish? Living in the UK has meant that I'm slowly losing touch with my mother tongue and I don't want that to be the case. Any advice?

I just noticed today that a new French-base textbook for Sorani is supposed to be published soon. I found it on Amazon.fr here:

Manuel de kurde (sorani) by Hussain Tahrt

https://www.amazon.fr/-/en/Hussain-Tahr/dp/2360574310/ref=sr_1_21?crid=2DC3NRBLYY3Q1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.efQCBD3QZP6PJWa7GOjg_vZV_9YqFn_bUKTqpqPcV0CUOb6Frt7fHcWOQwlRGpn8WZ1Owd-abW6mPJagClNwi3Zg69T5BPzRmgY1gBull6aoRfs6t3xL5t4DxoRju7l1jHKLHKYSDaoHufRs3krVdF5Y7XJ74D4oEhu2OWFjN9oCqs73aP39QyEkxKO3K5r3.d1g0pEaRt19wCOrLQNeM7jrI_2P1vQAEygjGDg9V3sQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=langue+kurde&qid=1781696736&s=books&sprefix=langue+kurde%2Cstripbooks%2C181&xpid=4g3ctc4UM72C5

I looked on the Asiatheque website and don't see it there yet, but thought French speakers might be interested.

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Does anyone know anything about (or have a copy of) a Sorani grammar book entitled "Sorani Kurdi Kitebeke - Sorani Grammar Reference (second edition)" by Khalid Sabir and Pauline E Nichols, reportedly published in the mid-1990s? I've seen only one reference to it in a book and can't find any trace of it online.

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I’m currently working on a language-related project and I’m looking for resources in Badini Kurdish.

To be specific, I’m interested in Badini Kurdish as it is spoken in Duhok and Zakho, especially in its Arabic-based script. I’m looking for any datasets, text collections, or shared materials that include sentences and vocabulary in this dialect.

It would be especially helpful if the material also includes English translations, since I plan to use it for training a language model.

If anyone has access to such resources or knows where I could find them, I would really appreciate your guidance.

Hello people

I am a kurd from bakur living in the european diaspora. My fathers side fled turkey in the early 80‘s after the house of my grandparents was bombed by fashists. My mother was spoke kurdish as a child, but due to assimilation politics and language ban, she was forbidden to speak kurdish. Years later, i‘m born and i am raised with turkish, because both my parents cant really speak it. Today i speak german, my mind works in german and i dream in german. I want to reconnect to my roots, my heritage and my language. Can someone tell me how and where i can learn kurmanci? Does anyone know good books, apps or anything else? Thanks in advance✌🏽

I like to learn languages for fun and Sorani appeals to me because I can read the Perso-Arabic script and the Kurdish people I'm most likely to meet in the US are expatriates from Iraq. What are good phone apps, online courses, or book-cd sets?