Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

On 5 maalis, 02:21, "Yusuf B Gursey" <y...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 4, 3:14 pm, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

AFAIK some Kurds do use the Latin alphabet for their language, which
is unmistakably Iranian. And there are Latinization schemes forFarsi,
too.

Kurds in Syria and Turkey (and perhaps Azerbaijan and Armenia which
formerlyused Cyrillic) write Kurmanji (and Zaza) in a latin based
alphabet while in Iraq and Iran Sorani is written in highly modified
perso-arabic.

Are there any Kurmanji-speakers in Iraq, or Sorani-speakers in Turkey?
I seem to recall that the linguistic Kurmanji/Sorani border is not the
same as the political Turkey/Iraq border, but I cannot recall whether
the linguistic one was north or south of the political one.

And (a stupid question, I know) what is this Zaza anyway?

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