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Kurdish language learning books:

Behdini and Sorani language learning materials (books and CDs) available from
Cherie.  Visit jeenuazadi.com and/or click here for an order form:

  • order form for Behdini and Sorani materials

    Sorani language-learning DVD (primarily vocabulary/listening/speaking practice): 
    http://www.multilingualbooks.com/talknow.html


    Books and other resources in Behdini, Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zaza:   www.genjine.com (in the USA); info@Orientdienst.de (in Europe) or http://www.ead-direkt.de/medindex.htm

    Bible texts in Behdini, Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zazaki: 
    www.Kurdish-Bible.org

    The Good News in Behdini:  http://globalrecordings.net/audiostream/C33891
    The GoodNews in Kurdish Sorani:  http://globalrecordings.net/audiostream/C14161

    Linguistic materials on Kurdish languages (e.g., literacy primers in Latin and Cyrillic Kurmanji); Dimli grammar: 
    www.Forum-Linguistik.de

    Kurdish language e-magazine in Behdini and English:  www.jeenuazadi.com

    Radio program in Kurmanji:  www.erf.de/kurmanci (also broadcast daily at 21:15in Turkey time on MW 1350 kHz)

    Articles to download in Kurmanji:  
    www.scribd.com (enter "Mizgini" in the search box)

    Online grammars for Sorani and Kurmanji:  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Sorani/sorani_1_grammar.pdf

    http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Kurmanji/kurmanji_complete.pdf


    Sorani online dictionary:  www.namonet.com

    Famous youth program in Arabic:  
    www.aladiary.com

    Kurdish American Youth:  www.kurdyouth.org

  • Highly recommended books about Kurds:

     

    My Father's Paradise:  A son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar (order from amazon.com)

    Fire, Snow and Honey:  Voices from Kurdistan, by Danielle Mitterand and Gina Lennox (order from amazon.com)

    A Thousand Sighs, A  Thousand Revolts
    , by Christiane Bird (order from amazon.com)

    Kurdish Culture, by Denise Sweetnam (order from Cherie)

    Love in a Torn Land, by Jean Sassoon (order from amazon.com)

    Invisible Nation:  How the Kurds' quest for statehood is sharpening Iraq and the Middle East, by Quil Lawrence (order from amazon.com)

    My Father's Rifle:  a childhood in Kurdistan, by Hiner Saleem (order from amazon.com)

    Elvis is Titanic:  Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq, by Ian Klaus (order from amazon.com)


     

    Kurdish library - www.kurdishlibrary.org
     

    Kurdish Library House - SARA - www.SARADISTRIBUTION.com 

    Order Kurdish Materials Online!  http://www.kurdishbookbank.org/book_bok_kitap.htm

    http://www.kurdmedia.com/ac/books.asp

    http://jota.sm.luth.se/~d92-amh/library/books.html

    http://www.kurdishlibrary.org/Kurdish_Library/BookNews/Booknews_Library_Eng.htm

     

    Daily News on the Internet:

     

    http://www.kurdmedia.com/knews.asp

    http://www.voanews.com/kurdish (Sorani)
    http://www.voanews.com/Kurdi (Kurmanji)

     

    Other links:

     

    http://www.khrw.com/links.html

     

    Online Dictionary:

     

    http://hem.passagen.se/eramura/engelska/dictionary/abclista.htm

    www.dcklci.com/dictionary (Behdini) 

     

    Linguistics:

     

    http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/kurdlan.html

      

    Washington Kurdish Institute (in DC)

     

    http://www.kurd.org/kurd

     

    Map of the Kurdish-speaking area:

     

    http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/map.jpg