The History and Development of Literary Central Kurdish

2021/04/22 by Jaffer Sheyholislami · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Political Conflict and Governance #Variety (cybernetics) #Standardization #Government (linguistics) #Language planning #Population #Political science #Geography #Central government #History #Linguistics #Public administration #Sociology #Computer science #Local government #Law #Pedagogy #Artificial intelligence #Demography

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/9781108623711.026

openalex publication_date 2021/04/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

“There are about eight million speakers of Central Kurdish (Sorani) in Iran and Iraq. Unlike Iran, in Iraq the language enjoys an official status at both regional (Kurdistan Regional Government) and federal levels. This chapter presents a chronological history of the emergence, development and standardization of written Central Kurdish in Kurdistan (Iran and Iraq) and diasporas. It underlines language planning achievements to date and the challenges the language faces in terms of corpus planning, status and recognition and acquisition planning (its teaching and learning). Debates over what this variety should be called and a detailed breakdown of the population of its speakers are presented.”

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• Central Kurdish [wikipedia]

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