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At 17:28 21.3.2004, Babnol Rodlox wrote: >sort of like how Kurdish and Turkish, related though they are, don't have >identical alphabets, yes? Actually it is the other way around: Turkish and Kurdish are *not* linguistically related, although Turkish authorities have been trying to diss Kurdish as a bad dialect which should be replaced with Turkish -- that's a properly power-political thing, Turkey trying to be a monoculture when it is not. Kurdish is an Iranian-IndoEuropean language which has been spoken in the area for at least 3000 years (already Xenophon had a run-in with the _Kyrtoi_) while Turkish is a relatively late immogrant from Central Asia (since a thousand years or so). OTOH the Latin orthography of Kurdish is actually based on the Turkish. Check out <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kurdish.htm> but turn a blind eye on the Cyrillic version, which is obsolete. The Arabic alphabet is the one in use in Iraq.
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