Literary output in Kurdish languages was mostly confined to poetry until the early 20th century, when more general literature became developed.
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16 Facts About Kurdish languages
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Kurdish languages belong to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.
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Ludwig Paul concludes that Kurdish seems to be a Northwestern Iranian language in origin, but acknowledges that it shares many traits with Southwestern Iranian languages like Persian, apparently due to longstanding and intense historical contacts.
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Windfuhr and Frye assume an eastern origin for Kurdish languages and consider it as related to eastern and central Iranian dialects.
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Present state of knowledge about Kurdish languages allows, at least roughly, drawing the approximate borders of the areas where the main ethnic core of the speakers of the contemporary Kurdish languages dialects was formed.
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Kurdish languages is divided into three or four groups, where dialects from different groups are not mutually intelligible without acquired bilingualism.
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The Sorani group has been influenced by among other things its closer cultural proximity to the other Kurdish languages spoken by Kurds in the region including the Gorani language in parts of Iranian Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Some linguistic scholars assert that the term "Kurdish languages" has been applied extrinsically in describing the language the Kurds speak, whereas some ethnic Kurds have used the word term to simply describe their ethnicity and refer to their language as Kurmanji, Sorani, Hewrami, Kermanshahi, Kalhori or whatever other dialect or language they speak.
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Kurdish languages translated both from Kurdish into Arabic in the early 9th century AD.
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The Kurdish languages language was banned in a large portion of Kurdistan for some time.
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In Syria, on the other hand, publishing materials in Kurdish languages is forbidden, though this prohibition is not enforced any more due to the Syrian civil war.
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The Kurdish languages alphabet is not recognized in Turkey, and prior to 2013 the use of Kurdish languages names containing the letters X, W, and Q, which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet, was not allowed.
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Previously, Kurdish languages education had only been possible in private institutions.
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Kurdish languages language has been written using four different writing systems.
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Kurdish languages was written in the Arabic script in Turkey and Syria until 1932.
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Kurdish languages has even been written in the Armenian alphabet in Soviet Armenia and in the Ottoman Empire .
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