Yazidi Alphabets

[talsor]

I came across this recently , Is this really the Yazidi Alphabets ?

[Londoner]

I think this is the same alphabet being used by all the people of former Soviet Union.

[Piling]

As a Yezidi alphabet this one is older (from XIXthe century ?). A mix of Syriac, Arabic alphabet, with others letters... The second should have been used during the Soviet Union era.

http://sohrawardi.blogspot.com/2008/05/ ... html#links

[κє¢ê ∂îиê 63]

looks difficult

[talsor]

As a Yezidi alphabet this one is older (from XIXthe century ?). A mix of Syriac, Arabic alphabet, with others letters... The second should have been used during the Soviet Union era.

can you fix the image , I can not see it

Thanks

[Piling]

sorry, pictures on bloggers are very moveable. I put the link of the page instead.

[Safa]

hey where did you find that?

im interested to look at the original source

thanks!

[talsor]

hey where did you find that?

im interested to look at the original source

thanks!

I PRT Screened it from a video on youtube , I really can not remember what video was it . I will try to find it for you . No promises though

[Kurdi-Bakur]

woow. it s wonderfull .... ı was not knowing our yezidi brothers have a nice alphabet

[Piling]

the page is a picture of the Kitab-i Jalwa (Book of Revelation) of Yezidism. The text itself is an issue for scholars : with the 2nd sacred book the Mashaf-i Resh (Black Book), it has been published at the beginning of the XXth century. A Yezidi would have betrayed the secret of its belief to a Christian Priest, Father Anastas (but when ?). It is written in Kurdish, but with a special cryptic alphabet. It could be a later Kurdish translation of an original Arab text. In fact, the books could not be older than the Ottoman period, and had been probably written by non-Yezidi, for at this time, it was strictly forbidden for Yezidis to write and publish their beliefs. But the content of the texts are considered generally as true yezidi teaching.

In any case, that alphabet was only used for Yezidi texts, written in Souther Kurdistan.

[KCF]

Yezidi Holy Letters

[kurdangel]

are those letters still in use by the Ezidi's???

[Piling]

I don't think. In fact this alphabet was never really used, except to transcript sacred and secret books. Until a recent time, the religious teaching of Yezidi should stay secret and people who revealed them, for example by publishing qewls could face death.

[kurdangel]

wow soundss weird... i never knew