Kurmanji Kurdish in Turkey:

Haig, Geoffrey; Öpengin, Ergin

doi:10.2307/j.ctvckq4v1.12

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“…The analysis in Table 4 differs from other analyses of Kurmanji phonemes (such as Haig & Öpengin 2018;Thackston 2006) in not including the velar nasal [ŋ] as a phoneme. This is because [ŋ] only occurs syllable-finally, where it alternates with [ŋg] whenever followed by a vowel.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Kurmanji is generally analyzed as having eight vowels (Haig & Öpengin 2018;Thackston 2006). A generally accepted vowel inventory for the language is depicted in Table 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some analyses of Kurmanji refer to the pharyngeals as "fricatives" (Haig & Öpengin 2018;Thackston 2006). If this is taken at face value, it raises a third issue for the sonority sequencing principle, as pharyngeals may precede sonorants in coda position, as in [baeħɾ], also pronounced [baeʕɾ] (see Table 10, where all post-vocalic instances of [ħ] may be voiced).…”

Section: Glides and Pharyngeals In Kurmanjimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kurmanji [ɑ] is here not written with contrastive length, although, like its Persian counterpart, it is generally phonetically longer. Historically, this vowel was the long form of the vowel that became /ae/, but today the salience of length for native speakers is not clear (see Haig & Öpengin 2018, who use the term "full vowels", noting the lack of phonemic length contrast). [ae], on the other hand, is not considered long in any sense, and the sequence [aeʕ] appears as an innovation akin to diphthongization.…”

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Pharyngeals in Kurmanji Kurdish : A reanalysis of their source and status

Barry¹

2019

Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics (BSKL)

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A noteworthy feature of a number of Western Iranian languages, including Kurmanji Kurdish, is the presence of contrastive pharyngeal sounds in inherited vocabulary. These pharyngeals are considered by many linguists working on Kurdish to be the result of contact with Arabic, coming into the language through Arabic loan vocabulary (Haig & Matras 2002). The Arabic contact source of these sounds seems likely, particularly given the fact that most of the Western Iranian languages which contain pharyngeals are in contact with Arabic at present or historically. However, as I demonstrate, the distribution of the majority of contrastive pharyngeals in inherited Iranian vocabulary in Kurmanji does not suggest a mere surface imitation of Arabic vocabulary, but a Kurmanji-internal phonological process modulated by familiarity with the phonetics of Arabic pharyngeals. A newly-identified sound pattern presented here is the association of what are arguably pharyngealized vowel phonemes in Kurmanji with pre-existing labial consonants and constraints determined by Kurmanji phonotactics. Following Blevins' (2017) model of "perceptual magnets", this effect is held to have emerged on a model of Arabic pharyngeals as external "perceptual magnets" for native speakers of Kurdish who had extensive exposure to Arabic sound patterns.

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Section: Vowel and Consonant Inventorymentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Kurmanji is generally analyzed as having eight vowels (Haig & Öpengin 2018;Thackston 2006). A generally accepted vowel inventory for the language is depicted in Table 3.…”

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Pharyngeals in Kurmanji Kurdish : A reanalysis of their source and status

Barry¹

2019

Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics (BSKL)

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“…Obviously, there are various salient features of Kurdish phonology that are not distinctively represented in the source orthography. In Kurmanji Kurdish, the voiceless stops k, p, t, ç have aspirated and unaspirated versions as distinctive phonemes (Haig and Öpengin 2018). This distinction is not marked in the source orthography, and as such left unrepresented also in the transliteration here.…”

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Principles of Ritual Prayer: An 18th Century Catechism in Bahdini Kurdish

Öpengin

2023

Oriente Mod.

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This article presents an edition and linguistic analysis of a verse catechism in the Bahdini dialect of Kurdish. The manuscript of the text is dated to late 18th century and is held among the Oriental manuscripts collections of the Berlin State Library. The text is a didactic verse on the principles and rules of the Islamic ritual prayer (ṣalāt), belonging thus to the catechism or in its Turkish-Arabic term ʿilm -i ḥāl genre. It is the oldest example of the catechism genre, different from creeds, in Kurdish literature that started in the late 16th century. The text is edited here within the context of religious treatises in Kurdish and analysed for its historical-linguistic and dialectological aspects that illustrate Early Modern Kurdish.

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