Anthology of Kurdish “Kurmanji” texts

109 Pages·2008·40.33 MB·English

Upsala University -Sweden 1959

Anthology of Kurdish “Kurmanji” texts

Published by: STIG WIKANDAR

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www.westernkurdistan.org.uk

Foreword
The aim of this anthology is to provide a fuller picture of the Kurdish dialect
than any of the texts published hitherto.

In 1931 the brothers Celadet and Kamuran Bedirxan invented a Latin script
on the model of the new Turkish script for the form of western Kurdish they
called kurmanci or kurdmanci. This term is also used here to designate the
literary language based on the Boti dialect which seems destined to play an
important role in the intellectual life of the Kurdish people. It has already
experienced considerable growth, in particular between 1932 and 1945.

The purpose of this anthology is to present this language in all its forms. It
includes examples of folktales and poetry, but also ethnographic and
historical articles and extracts from grammatical authorities.

The texts in section seven, ‘Grammar’, give readers a good overview of the
grammatical structure of Kurdish whilst the translations of extracts from
world literature that make up section six will help readers to familiarise
themselves as much with Kurdish vocabulary as with grammar.

Most of the texts are drawn from publications that have appeared in Syria or
Lebanon and are difficult for a western readership to access. The anthology
also includes unpublished texts. Where no source is given but only an author
the texts were dictated to me in 1953 in Damascus or Qubur al-Bid.

Osman Sebri’s remarkable study of Kurdish spelling and phonology (no. 37)
is published from a manuscript kindly made available to me by the author.

Uppsala, October 1958.

1. Fables and anecdotes
2. Folktales
3. Life and customs of the Kurdish people
4. Traditional poetry
5. Modern poetry
6. Translations
7. Grammar

The heading is in Swedish
Book titles are normally left in the original language.

Many thanks to Dr. Mary Stevens translated this foreword from French, the origin text,
into English.
http://www.westernkurdistan.org.uk/documents/StigWikander.pdf

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