Kurdish Academy of Language

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The Shéx Biziní Kurdish, or allegedly Kirmanjekí Kurdish, is spoken over the Kurdish enclaves within Western Anatolia, particularly in Haymana region. I have the vaguest information about the tribe to deliver a proper sociolinguistic perspective but from the linguistic materials, namely the vocabulary and grammar; I can affirm that their speech is a subdialect of the Southern Kirmanjí Kurdish and likely similar to Ílamí Kurdish.

To me the highlight about this Kurdish subdialect is to survey the contrasts and probable linguistic incisions taken place between Shéx Biziní and Ílamí Kurdish after all these centuries of isolation.

The purpose of the following lines is to elucidate the position of Shéx Biziní (Kirmanjekí) among other Kurdish dialects.

Kirmanjekí (Biziní) : Ílamí : Lekí : Erdellaní Soraní : Kurmanjí

min : min : mi(n) : mi(n) : mi(n)

tu : tu : tu : to : tu

ewí : ew : ew : ew : ew

íme : íme : íme : éme : em

íwe : íwe : húme : éwe : hún

ewane : ewan : ewún : ewan : ewan

cún : cowa : citor : con : cawa(n) : how

kan? / ken? : kam : kom : kam : kíjh : which

ku : ku : kuwe : kwéy : ku : where

Southern Kirmanjí Grammatical Comparison

Kirmanjekí : Ílamí : Lekí : Gerrusí

díyem : etim : mem : díyem : I come

dicim : ecim : mecim : (di)cim : I go

dikefim : ekefim : mekúm : (di)kefim : I fall

dixazim : exwazim : mém : (di)xwazim : I want

divínim : ewnim : mewínim : (di)wínim : I see

divíshim : ewshim : mewshim : (d)úshim : I say

"To Have"

Kirmanjekí : Ílamí : Lekí : Erdellaní : Kurmanjí

karim hest : kar dírim : kar dérim : karim hes : karé min heye : I got work

kureykim hest : kuréyg dírim : kuré dérim : kureykim hes : kurekí min heye : I have a son

kirdim : kirdim : kirdim : kirdim : min kir : I did

kirde? : kirdí(d) : kirdí(t) : kirdit : te kir : thou did

kird : kird : kird : kird(í) : wí kir : s/he did

kirdín : kirdiman : kirdimún : kirdman : me kir : we did

kirdin : kirdidan : kirditún : kirdtan : we kir : you did

kirdin : kirdin : kirdwún : kirdyan : wan kir : they did

Comparative Vocabulary Highlights

Kirmanjekí (Shéx Biziní) "werf", Goraní (Pehlewaní Kurdish) "werf", Hewramí (Pehlewaní Kurdish) "werwe", Ílamí and Kelhúrí "wefr", Lekí "wer" ~ "snow"

Kirmanjekí "estare", Ílamí "esare", Lekí "estare", Erdellaní "hesare", Zaza (Pehlewaní Kurdish) "estare" ~ "star"

Kirmanjekí "edíne", Central "heyní", Northern "ín" ~ "Friday"; the retention of the original form "díne" ~ "day" is highly remarkable. Whilst the Old Iranian "díne*" ~ "day" is distorted in the current Kurdish words e.g. sibeyní ~ "tomorrow" < sibe-díní (~ morrow-day), pashíní ~ "the day after tomorrow" < pash-díní (~ next-day), dwéyní ~ "yesterday" < dwé-díní (~ yester-day)

Kirmanjekí "wewí" / "weví", Ílamí "wewí", Erdellaní "wewí" / "weví", Lekí "bewí" ~ "bride"

Kirmanjekí "sowzí", Erdellaní "sowzí", Ílamí "shewekí", Lekí "súwe" ~ "morning / morrow"

Kirmanjekí "wer jhe", Lekí "wer jhe", Ílamí "werj", Kurmanjí "ber jhi" ~ "before"

Kirmanjekí "ves", Erdellaní "wús", Ílamí "bes", Lekí "bes" ~ "enough"

Kirmanjekí "veran", Ílamí "weran", Rural Erdellaní "weran", Lekí "wiren" ~ "ram"

Kirmanjekí "xúrí", Ílamí "xorí", Lekí "húrí", Kurmanjí "hurí" ~ "wool"

Kirmanjekí "verk", Southern Kirmanjí "werk" ~ "lamb"

Kirmanjekí "virsig" / "wirsigh", Ílamí "wirsig", Lekí "wirsí" ~ "hungry"

Kirmanjekí "wardin", Ílamí "hawirdin", Lekí "awirdin" ~ "to bring"

Kirmanjekí "vitin" / "witin", Lekí "witin", Erdellaní "witin" / "wútin", Ílamí "wetin" ~ "to say"

Kirmanjekí "shikyag" / shikyagh", Ílamí "shikyag", Erdellaní "shikyag", Lekí "shikya" ~ "broken"

Kirmanjekí "víshyag" / "wíshyagh", Ílamí "wishyag", Erdellaní "wéjhyag", Lekí "wishya" ~ "told"

Kirmanjekí "kushyag" / "kushyagh", Ílamí "kushyag", Erdellaní "kujhyag", Lekí "kushya" ~ "killed"

The Bazaini (no need for the sheikh part), is originally from Bazian--called Phasis by the ancient Graeco-Roman sources. This is presumably where Medea (of the Jason and the Argonauts myth) originally hailed from. The tribe has moved all over the place, including into the Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran and Lebanon. The name has also changed into Bazaini, Baziani, Baziki (from Bazikan), Pazuki (in Iran, where a famous movie maker carried the name) and the like.

There is also an Armenian branch of the tribe, by the name Psyian, (the famous Colonel Pisyian of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1908 was an Armenian who carried the name).

It is also important to use the standard way of spelling so the terms are pronounced correctly

personal pronoun:
min îme
tu îwe
ewî ewane

cùn = how
ken/kenjik = which
erra/ ra ce = why
ce = what
key/ ci wext = when
kî = who
ku = where