Kurdish Archive

Thanks to the generous support of a Berkeley Language Center (BLC) Travel Grant for Foreign Language Lecturers, during Spring 2021 (April 5–May 27) I was able to participate in the eight-week Online Kurdish Studies Certificate Program offered by the Zahra Institute, a Chicago-based research center and graduate school focusing on teaching and scholarship related to…

The limited body of materials for teaching the Kurdish language has various shortcomings. While the outdated grammar books are specifically targeted for linguists interested in comparative linguistics or grammatical and linguistic analysis of the Kurdish language and ethnography, more recent textbooks suffer from numerous problems, most noticeably the scope and sequence of grammar topics as…