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

On Mar 6, 1:08 pm, "Yusuf B Gursey" <y...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 6, 6:44 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:





On 5 maalis, 20:54, "Yusuf B Gursey" <y...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 5, 1:33 pm, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

On 5 maalis, 20:27, "Yusuf B Gursey" <y...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 5, 11:36 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

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?

there are kurmanji speakers in Iraq (roughly Barzani territory) no
sorani speakers in Turkey. the written language in Iraq is based on
Sorani.

Okay, so it was that way round. Thanks.

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?

Zaza (Dimili) and Gorani are divergent forms ofKurdish, not included
inkurdishproper by some.

I see. Do they have any literary development?-

IIRC Gorani has some old religious texts in perso-arabicscript. Zaza
is occassionally written down in Turkey in romanized script.

Where are the greatest differences between those languages actually?

which languages?

Grammar, phonology, vocabulary? I tried to learn ModernPersianmore

usually all three.


phonology is similar between the various forms of kurdish. zaza is
said to be so called by other kurds by the percieved preponderonceof
the sound /z/.




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