Author: Binyamin » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:15 pm
You and I have a bit of communication problem. You believe that any thing I say is to undermine you as a person. But that is not the case, it is just happen that you raise a question and I feel like to explain it to you. My remark regarding speaking Kurdish meant to address that I am a Kurdish Speaker, which simply mean I do read, write, and speak all the dialects in Kurdish, I have not learned my dialect I have learned Kurdish. Now, I am speaker of Goraní dialect of Southern Kurdish, which you might call it Kirmashaní, read a bit about us
http://www.kirmashan.com I am not so called Soraní speaker. Therefore, I am not denying any facts.
One fundamental rule about all the Kurdish grammar says that the velar “ll” never takes an initial position. That means there is no word which starts with “ll”. And the other rule says all the words starting with r are pronounced as a trill “rr”. Unfortunately there was no constructive, linguistic grammar available at the time when the orthographic system of Kurdish was coded by J.B. and other pioneers, so the system has dropped many significant characteristic about the natural form of Kurdish.
If the MPs at the parliament who read the thing wrong were Northern Kurdish Speakers, they would be save since they do not have the knowledge of the Gel, and Gell and they read both as “gel”, but those who made the mistake were very much Central Kurdish speakers.
I hope that this clear things better.