The Kurdish Language

**THIS CHANNEL IS ABOUT LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD, NOT POLITICS. I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DELETE ANY COMMENTS ABOUT POLITICS, ESPECIALLY VIOLENT OR RACIST COMMENTS. PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE *LANGUAGE*. Thank you!

** Today's video is about the Kurdish language, spoken by the Kurdish people in the Kurdish region.

Special thanks to Haqqi Bahram and Aram Rafeq for their voice recordings and their explanations of Kurmanji/Sorani sentences; and İbrahim Halil Yücedil for answering my numerous questions about Kurdish.

Special thanks to: Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Kaan Ergen, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Sergio Tsakatikas, Qarion, and Pedro Flores for their generous Patreon support.

Sources of intro Kurdistan clips:

Music:

Intro: "Take You" by Vibe Tracks.

Outro: "TFB3" by Vibe Tracks.

[iAmHaks]

The dislikes on this video shows how even such an innocent video on our language can bring in so much hate. Our oppressors do not have a problem with particular groups, they have a problem with the Kurdish existence. Our oppressors have stolen everything from us, hence why anything Kurdish threatens their whole existence. Keep hating, you only make us stronger. Bijî Kurdistan, Bijî Kurd. Thank you for your beautiful video on our language.

[Mertiy]

As a Turkish I learned quite much. Thanks for the awesome video Paul. Greetings to every Kurds.

[faroukdaizli]

Beautiful language, good people. Selam aleikum from Lebanon .

[alexbloddrunk]

What a beautiful language cheers from Mexico 🇲🇽

[tuncaybal]

The word "human" in Kurdish is very interesting.

In Kurmanji one says for the word "human" Mirov / Meriv which means mortal in real, from the word Mir / Mer for death.

In Sorani, Piyawekan is said to mean "man" which means "risen". Mortal and Risen. Very interesting, also from a philosophical point of view.

[johnnysilverhand]

Dislikes show how Kurds are oppressed by some people

[zeropsaft]

Kurdish people are amazing love from Greece 🇬🇷 ❤️.

[rtsohuh]

Salom to my Kurdish brothers and sisters ❤️from Tajikistan 🇹🇯✊

[mannaz_y]

What's up with the amount of dislikes on this video? Stop bringing your political hatred over here. This is a video on a language ffs

[portoesdacidade]

I'm Brazilian and I'm trying to learn Kurdish ♥️☀️💚

[bewar]

I’m so happy for this my mom speaks Kurmanji and my dad speaks Sorani . I know both of them but I want to learn more. Thank you

[muhammadgul]

I m a Baloch I can understand most of Kurdish Words

[Aeturnalis]

I made friends with a bunch of Kurds in middle school and high school, when I played soccer. By far some of the greatest people I have ever known; I suppose it is true that hardship builds character. 2 Iraq Kurds, 2 Turkish Kurds, and 1 Iranian Kurd. I recall they were able to speak in Kurdish with one another, though I don't know to what degree, and not one of them spoke any fewer than 3 languages. One of them, named Ako, was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish, English, Arabic, and German. Last I knew, he was living in Italy, so I presume he had no trouble adding Italian to his impressive resume.

[rzeka]

Kurdish! I think Kurdish is what got me interested in linguistics - I've met a few Kurds and I was interested in learning about their language since they didn't really have their own country. So, I looked it up, and before I knew it I was spending hours reading about languages.

Thank you, Kurdish, for helping me discover my passion.

[Ch-kojm]

bro, i'm a Kurd from the "Goran" tribe, and Gorani is not a different language ! its just another dialect which is a mix between Surani and Kurmanji, sometimes called Surmanji

[rabarrizgar]

Im a kurd, from south kurdistan i speak sorani dialect.
I understand both kurmanji, and kelhuri(pehlewani), and much of gorani.
And we all consider us as a kurd and we are proud.
Thank you for your concern about our language, very nice vedio.

[Mladjasmilic]

As native South Slavic speaker, I find this language a lot similar.

[maganiss]

Wow! I'm a native Persian speaker and I live among Kurds. I saw your videos about Persian and Kurdish. They are awesome! Your precision in explaining delicate details, your pronouciation, the pictures in the background of the videos, all terrific!

[Rezhwanuxoshi]

I'm amazed by your syntactic knowledge of so many languages. Thank you for sharing. <3 from a Danish-Kurdish woman, who speaks Sorani.

[moayusf]

As a Kurd Who Speak Kurmanji I send respect to you brother Paul For sharing our language With All your followers ❤️
Slav ji Kurdîstani❤️☀️💚