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I'm moving to Kurdistan on the 22nd of this month! Kurdish foreign members are welcome to visit

Btw Limagne, I've been using the Joyce Blau book a bit. It's quite good although I think there are some exercises with multiple answers where she only gives one which makes me doubtful of whether I've understood it. But vocabulary is good (with a French dictionary!).

ئەمرۆ دەچمە هەولێر لە کوردستانی عێراقدا بۆ ئەوەی لێرە ساڵێک بژیم

cejntan piroz ben!

Cejna te jî pîroz be!

Here you can download the books from Aras publishers for free, including the Little Prince, 1984 as well as a Kurdish-Arabic and a Kurdish-Persian dictionary.
http://www.araspublishers.com/books/en/81

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PiotrR wrote:Hello. I don't know any Kurdish nor am I learning it, but I have two questions regarding this video:

[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpq5dKnYJs[/youtube]

1. What exactly does the title of it mean?

According to the title, it's the final scene of a play called 'Nama Leyla Qasim'. Might have been shot in Qamishli, Syria.

Hey, are any Kurdish learners still around? I'd appreciate a lot if someone posted a song in Kurdish and glossed the lyrics (or gave a literal translation).

I think I had posted a rough translation of that Yalda Abbasi song somewhere in the Kurdish forum. But then, that's going to be in the Khorasani dialect of Kurmanji

Have a look at this though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9k7xfXmN40

Batmanê Batmanê lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Batmanê Batmanê
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Batmana Kurda’ye lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Batmana Kurda’ye
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Urmiye Urmiye lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Urmiye Urmiye
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Temam gul u bi ye lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Temam gul u bi ye
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Petrole petrole lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Petrole petrole
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Petrola Kurda’ye lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Petrola Kurda’ye
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Batmana mêrane lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Hemu wek şêrane
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê
Gula Kurdistan’e lêblê gulê lêblê gulê lê lê
Gula Kurdistan’e
Sing sedefe, dev bıçuke, çav beleke, eni gewhere canê

Found a Turkish translation.

Batmandır Batmandır, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Batmandır Batmandır
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Kürtlerin Batmanıdır, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Kürtlerin Batmanıdır
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Urmiyedir urmiyedir, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Urmiyedir urmiyedir
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Tümü gül gibidir, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Tümü gül gibidir
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Petroldur petroldur, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Petroldur petroldur
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Kürtlerin petrolüdür, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Kürtlerin petrolüdür
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Yiğitlerin Batmanıdır, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Hepsi aslan gibidir
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım
Kürdistan’ın gülüdür, leblê gülüm leblê gülüm le le
Kürdistan’ın gülüdür
Kalbi inci, ağzı küçük, gözü kara, alnı mücevherdir canım

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uh-onqHOjk

Thanks Limagne! I heard this song before and it's awesome I can see the lyrics now.

Hi there,

it's is very learn Kurdish language, but the problem is the variety of dialects and we don't have standard Kurdish language so far. I hope that Kurdish academic people to work on this issue.


Thanks

What is the status of /q/ in Kurdish (specifically Kurmanji)? Does it have a strong presence?

Koko wrote:What is the status of /q/ in Kurdish (specifically Kurmanji)? Does it have a strong presence?

Yes, it's a common sound, used both in native and borrowed words.
Examples:
Paqij 'clean' - of Indo-European origin
Qelew 'fat' - of Indo-European origin
Qeder 'destiny' - from Arabic
Qet 'never' - from Arabic

That's a little intimidating but I guess it's always good to try phonemes outside of your comfort zone.

Where can I find a textbook for beginners?

Irynka wrote:Where can I find a textbook for beginners?

Kurmanji dialect
Textbook: http://www.academia.edu/1238481/Kurmanj ... nners_PDF_
Grammar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/
Video course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXr8vX40VZk

Or if you're interested in Sorani Kurdish (since you didn't specify), here is a link that has some suggestions. Including two PDFs (one of which you can download at the Harvard site voron linked to above):
http://www.kurdishcentral.org/en/grammar-resources-sp

While not freely available online, and at least at the time I bought it a bit costly, there's also the Kurdish Basic Course by Abdullah and McCarus.

voron wrote:

Irynka wrote:Where can I find a textbook for beginners?

Kurmanji dialect
Textbook: http://www.academia.edu/1238481/Kurmanj ... nners_PDF_
Grammar: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/
Video course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXr8vX40VZk

Thank you!

księżycowy wrote:Or if you're interested in Sorani Kurdish (since you didn't specify), here is a link that has some suggestions. Including two PDFs (one of which you can download at the Harvard site voron linked to above):
http://www.kurdishcentral.org/en/grammar-resources-sp

While not freely available online, and at least at the time I bought it a bit costly, there's also the Kurdish Basic Course by Abdullah and McCarus.

Thank you!

But I was more interested in Kurmanci.

If you guys who are interested in Kurmanji want to see and hear it in a TV series, the Turkish state channel TRT Kurdî (previously named TRT 6, still universally known as TRT şeş) has produced several TV series in Kurmanji. Sadly, no subtitles, but they are fun to watch anyway:

Mem û Zin (Mem and Zin, these are personal names): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjzXsHVaC-s
Agirê Evînê (Fire of love): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwxzFUqq5o
Can û Ceger (Soul and heart, literally liver): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kY7IShUnjY
Jan (Pain): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDpsBZiAKg
Bayê Felekê (Wind of destiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3XsUSS745M
...and a few others.