Kurdish alphabets

The Kurdistan newspaper established in 1898, prior to latinization, was written in the Kurmanji dialect using Arabic script.

Kurdish is written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 and popularized through the Hawar magazine, and the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet.[1][2] The Kurdistan Region has agreed upon a standard for Central Kurdish, implemented in Unicode for computation purposes.[3] The Hawar alphabet is primarily used in Syria and Turkey, while the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet is commonly used in Iraq and Iran. The Hawar alphabet is also used to some extent in Iraqi Kurdistan.[4][5] Two additional alphabets, based on the Armenian and Cyrillic scripts, were once used by Kurds in the Soviet Union, most notably in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and Kurdistansky Uyezd.

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  2. ^ Thackston, W. M. (2006). "—Sorani Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings" (PDF). Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences: 4.
  3. ^ "Kurdistan Regional Government". cabinet.gov.krd (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-22. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  4. ^ Syan, Karwan Ali Qadir (2017). Media in an emergent democracy: the development of online journalism in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (PhD thesis). University of Bradford.
  5. ^ "Language in Erbil | Erbil Lifestyle". erbillifestyle.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.