Personalities

Nuri Ali Amin (Núrí Elí Emín)

A major contribution to Kurdish grammar made by Nuri Ali Amin's Qewa'idî Zimanî Kurdî Rules of the Kurdish language', (vol. 1, 1956; Vol. 2, 1958). Amin used English grammar as a model for grammatical description and introduced new material and analysis together with purified terminology. By this time the Ministry of Education had readmitted grammar into the curriculum and a four-member committee published a number of grammar books. The first was Rézimaní Kurdí 'Kurdish Grammar', for the fifth grade of primary school, compiled by Nuri Ali Amin, M. Khal and two other authors (Baghdad, 1960, 152 pp). These textbooks used simple language and were rich in exercises and examples. Although there are no significant syntactic differences among Sorani subdialects, the norm described by these grammars was recognizably that of the Silémaní subdialect.

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