Kurdish Academy of Language

enables the Kurdish language in new horizon

Kurdish student and academic association in Sweden (KSAF) is a politically and religiously independent umbrella association which, among other things, aims to promote the Kurdish students and graduates, and strengthen the Community of students at various Universities in Sweden. 

The association aims to inform the public of Kurdistan, the Kurdish culture, history and language. The association plans to encourage people with Kurdish background to post-secondary education and serve as a link for them to step into the academic world. 

Le layen K. Abdí, Kurdistan, 17/09/2009

Mamosta Hesen Selah Soran, sha'írí nasrawí nawcey Feyzullabegí u mamostay wanekaní Kurdí le zankokaní Éran u zankoy Selahedíní Hewlér, katjhimér 12í níwerroy rojhí cuwarshemme rékewtí 25í xermanan, le mallí xoy le sharí Kerej mallawayí le jhíyan kird.

Mamosta Hesen Selah Soran, le binemalleyekí Feyzullabegí le gundí Saruqamísh ser be sharí Bokan le dayík búwe. Xuwéndiní seretayí u nawendí u duwanawendí le Bokan tewaw kirdúwe u le koléjhekaní Trinity, Saint George le willatí Berítanya zimaní Ínglízí xuwéndúwe u nizíkey 10 kitébí sebaret be Kurd, zimaní Kurdí u shé'r u pexshan be cap geyandúwe u komellék kitébí capnekirawíshí le pash be jéyí mawe.

By Geoffrey Haig 

Kurdish is the cover term for a bundle of closely related west Iranian languages, spoken across a large area of the Middle EaSIcenteringal1he intersection of the Turkish Iranian and Iraqi national borders. The number of speakers is variously estimated at between 20 and 40 million. Traditionally three major dialect clusters are identified: The Northern Group often re¬ferred to as Kurmanji (also spelt Kurmanjî, Kurmanci, Kurmancî) the Central Group often referred as Soranî: and the Southern Group.

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent, September 16. 2009

ISTANBUL: At a little-known university in south-eastern Turkey that was founded only two years ago, history is being written.

With its 700 students, Mardin Artuklu University, named after a 10th-century regional principality, finds itself spearheading a political initiative designed to fundamentally change the way the country deals with its estimated 12 million Kurds and to end a conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives.

 The Higher Education Board (YÖK) will meet today in Ankara to discuss opening Kurdish language and literature departments at universities around the country.

The head of YÖK, Professor Yusuf Ziya Özcan, said at a meeting with the presidents of 27 universities across Turkey that universities cannot keep their distance from a language which is spoken by 13 million citizens.

By Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, 11/09/2009

Turkey's higher education authority on Thursday approved a proposal to teach Kurdish, which was once banned from the country, at a Turkish university for the first time.

In a move that began with the launch of Turkey's first state-run Kurdish-language TV station, the country's broadcasting watchdog changes the rules, allowing private channels the freedom to air shows in languages other than Turkish, 24 hours a day. The move is not without opposition as it comes amid debate over the government's wider Kurdish initiative.

Edmonds’ emphasis on the need to unify the Kurdish language by turning Surani into the official dialect in southern Kurdistan was meant to establish Kurdish on the same footing as Arabic and to dismiss the governments attempt to undermine its political importance. Edmonds was also the first scholar to transcribe Kurdish into Latin characters, as no Kurdish alphabet existed. He believed it was important to use the Latin alphabet in order to distinguish Kurdish from the area's two dominant vernaculars, Arabic and Persian.

This section provides a documentation of the language's acquisition of new functions such as use in print and broadcast media, administration, science, cinema, theater and expansion of its traditional use in literature and education during the post-1918 period.

Languages differ widely in terms of functions, domains or scope of use.
At the one extreme, English-the world's most developed speech form-has surpassed behind even developed languages like French and German (Kloss 1978:41). At the other end stand numerous languages unable to find access to the media or the educational system.

Book overview

This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.