Microsoft Translator has announced that it has added two Kurdish dialects, namely Kurmanjî and Soranî, to its list of text translation languages. In a statement published on the official website of ...

A joint project initiated by Kurdish Language Research and Improvement Association (KURDÎ-DER) and Turkey’s Union of Engineers and Architects Chambers (TMMOB) Diyarbakır branch created the android ...

A new generation of young Kurdish folklore collectors are helping to revitalise endangered languages and create a living archive, a new study shows. Stories and songs could be saved from oblivion ...

Bloomington - Indiana University has become the first university in North America to offer a class in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish, a language spoken throughout several Middle Eastern lands, ...

In the heat of the day, groups of Syrian refugee students walk purposefully to the learning centre in Domiz refugee camp. Here, they are studying the local Kurdish dialects in preparation for the new ...

Turkey's on-again-off-again "Kurdish initiative" -- a democratization and reform effort introduced in 2009 that was intended to help solve the decades-old Kurdish issue -- has taken another unexpected ...

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irbil, iraq -- Unshackled from Arab domination and the yoke of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraqi Kurdistan has grown into a powerful incubator of Kurdish ambitions and nationalism. But the enclave in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A theater group is touring villages in Dersim province, southeast Turkey to present plays in the Zazaki dialect of Kurdish, playing to crowds that include many first-time ...

At first, no one in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil would drink the bitter coffee at Syrian refugee Abdussamad Abdulqadir's cafe. But now it's a hit, part of a growing cultural exchange. Since ...