Archive for the ‘Kurdish Culture’ Category
1. Potential utility of a text corpus for Kurdish language
1.1. General Preamble
Any study in the Kurdish field immediately meets important difficulties. One of the greatest is, no need to tell, of political nature. To build a text corpus for Kurdish language cannot be seen as a neutral action : doing this is first to assert the existence of a language, of a territory, of a nation ; it is also to confront oneself with the division of this nation and of this language, a division which is as well imposed and suffered than perpetuated by Kurds themselves.
Kurdish Music (Kurdish: Muzîk û strana kurdî) refers to music performed in Kurdish language.
Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers – storytellers (çîrokbêj), minstrels (stranbêj) and bards (dengbêj). There was no specific music related to the Kurdish princely courts, and instead, music performed in night gatherings (şevbihêrk) is considered classical.
This is a list of countries of the world sorted by total Kurdish-speaking population. The estimated number of Kurdish speakers in the world is 31,417,000. This is based on information between 1997 and 2006, and isn’t current.
Kurdish literature (in Kurdish: Wêjeya Kurdî) refers to the literature written in Kurdish language. Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. There is no existing evidence of Kurdish literature of pre-Islamic period. Some sources consider Ali Hariri(1425-1495) as the first well-known poet who wrote in Kurdish. He was from the Hakkari region.
Bekhal’s Tears
Bekhal’s Tears (Kurdish:Firmîskî Bêxal) is a 2005 Kurdish film directed by Lauand Omar and produced in Iraq.
Kurdish dance (Kurdish: Govend) is a group of traditional hand-holding dances similar to those from the Balkans, Lebanon, Iraq and to Iran. It is a form of round dancing, with a single or a couple of figure dancers often added to the geometrical centre of dancing circle.
According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Kurds sing and dance in all of their festivals, birthdays and marriage ceremonies. These folkloric dances are one of the main factors in distinguishing Kurds from neighbouring Muslim populations .
Kurdish traditional clothings (Kurdish: Cilî Kurdî) are variant. Kurdish women wear colorful clothes.
Types of clothing:
Kewapatol
Renk u choxe
Klash
Sorane
Pishten