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Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish): resources and preservation

Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

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01Directory

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Media entries are public broadcasters of different states. A listing is not an endorsement. Media under international sanctions are not listed.

02Endangerment

EntryStatusBasis
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verify
Northern KurdishThreatened6b (Threatened)

Sources UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source

03Documentation

No documentation project for Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) is recorded here yet. These archives hold recordings and studies of the region’s languages.

04Contribute

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  • Teachers: teach or help write Kurmanji A1 (Latin), Kurmanji A2 to B1, Kurmanji B2 to C1.
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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish): Resources and preservation. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/kmr-latn/resources/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish): Resources and Preservation.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/language/languages/kmr-latn/resources/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_language_languages_kmr_latn_resources,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurmanji ({Northern} {Kurdish}): Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/kmr-latn/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/language/languages/kmr-latn/resources/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Multi-CAST Northern Kurdish

    Geoffrey Haig, Maria Vollmer, Hanna Thiele · 2025 · Zenodo

    DatasetDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) DoReCo dataset

    Geoff Haig, Hanna Thiele, Maria Vollmer · 2024 · NAKALA – https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num – CNRS)

    DatasetDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. FLEURS-Kobani: Extending the FLEURS Dataset for Northern Kurdish

    Daban Q. Jaff, Mohammad Mohammadamini · 2026 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  4. Percentage of Consonants Correct for 3-5 Years Old Kurdish-Speaking Children With Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect

    Shahla Fatemi Syadar, Talieh Zarifian, Yahya Modarresi et al. · 2018 · Iranian Rehabilitation Journal

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) DoReCo audiofiles

    Geoff Haig, Hanna Thiele, Maria Vollmer · 2024 · NAKALA – https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num – CNRS)

    OtherDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  6. A Phonological Comparison of Khorasan and Northern Kurmanji

    2024 · Kurdiname

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  7. Northern Kurdish Of Khizava Text 7: §1-19

    Masoud Mohammadirad · 2022 · Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq

    ChapterCrossrefCC-BY-NC-4.0

  8. Advancing Low-Resource Speech Recognition: A Comprehensive Study of Fine-Tuning Strategies for Northern Kurdish using Whisper Transformers

    Abdulla A, Tabibian S, Veisi H et al. · 2026 · Research Square

    PreprintEurope PMC

  9. Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect.

    Saeed VA, Jacksi K · 2026 · Data Brief

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  10. End-to-End Transformer-based Automatic Speech Recognition for Northern Kurdish: A Pioneering Approach

    Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Shima Tabibian, Hadi Veisi et al. · 2024 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  11. 2.3. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanjî)

    Geoffrey L.J. Haig · 2018 · De Gruyter eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlex

  12. An Ecolinguistics Analysis on Lexicalization of Domestic Animals in Kurmanji Kurdish

    Elham Mizban, Shahla Sharifi, Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol · 2022 · مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: arXiv (Metadata CC0 1.0; papers under their own licences), 2026-10-23; Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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