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The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.

A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area.

Education and Language Standards

Kurdish is taught in several varieties and scripts. This community would set A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit. standards and level descriptors that treat every variety fairly.

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Status
Proposed
What it offers
4
Courses
2
Country programmes
35
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.

Courses are written and reviewed by peers. A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts. are A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used. until expert review.

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Sources

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  1. ziyattin YILDIRIMÇAKAR (2026). Supplementary Data for "Language Attitudes and Perceptual Recognition in a Context of Non-State Standardization: Evidence from Kurmanji Kurdish". Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23020543
  2. The Theories of standardization of language and Kurdish language (2026). Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal. DOI 10.25212/lfu.qzj.11.1.5
  3. Shadan Shukr Sabr, Nazira Sabr Mustafa, Talar Sabah Omar et al. (2025). A Comprehensive Part-of-Speech Tagging to Standardize Central-Kurdish Language: A Research Guide for Kurdish Natural Language Processing Tasks. arXiv.
  4. Anu Leinonen (2025). Struggling against Language Shift: Kurdish Language Education in Turkey. Kurdish Studies Archive. DOI 10.1163/9789004726239_004
  5. Mohammad Mohammadamini, Daban Q. Jaff, Josep Crego et al. (2026). English to Central Kurdish Speech Translation: Corpus Creation, Evaluation, and Orthographic Standardization. arXiv. DOI 10.63317/4jy562hboezr

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Level descriptors

    Shared levels for courses in each Kurdish variety.

  • 02

    Script guidance

    Guidance for Latin, Arabic-based and Cyrillic scripts.

  • 03

    Course standards

    What every course must include, from outline to sources.

  • 04

    Teacher standards

    Standards for teacher training and mother-tongue schools.

02Who it is for

  • Linguists
  • Kurdish teachers
  • Course authors
  • Mother-tongue school organisers

03How it works

Proposal
the community awaits the governing body’s decision.
Join
members would take part by variety and A narrower topic within a discipline..
Draft
members would draft standards and descriptors.
Review
each standard would be peer reviewed before use.

04What it always keeps

  • No variety or script is ranked above another
  • Independent of any party, state or funder
  • An interest of a person, such as money, family, an employer or a political role, that could make them decide differently from a fair person in the same place. are declared
  • Every output is reviewed and sourced

05Disciplines

  • A group of related disciplines within a faculty; it is an arrangement of subjects, not an institution. of Teacher Education

    Heritage language education

    Teaching Kurdish to children and adults who grow up with it at home, in weekend and community schools.

    2 courses4 fields Open

  • Department of Teacher Education

    Teacher education

    Preparing teachers to teach a subject well, in a classroom or online.

    0 courses4 fields A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.

  • Department of Education Science

    Education science and pedagogy

    How people learn, how curricula are designed and how learning is assessed.

    0 courses5 fields Proposed

  • Department of Languages and Linguistics

    Applied linguistics and language learning

    How people learn a second language and keep two or more, as most Kurdish speakers do.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Kurdish Languages

    Kurdish language and linguistics

    Kurdish linguistics studies the grammar, dialects, standards and history of the Kurdish varieties.

    0 courses5 fields Proposed

  • Department of Kurdish Languages

    Kurdish scripts

    Kurdish is written in three scripts: Latin, Arabic-based and Cyrillic.

    1 course5 fields Open

06Courses

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

07Communities of practice

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Education and Language Standards.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/communities/education-standards/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Education and {Language} {Standards}},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/education-standards/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/education-standards/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. Supplementary Data for "Language Attitudes and Perceptual Recognition in a Context of Non-State Standardization: Evidence from Kurmanji Kurdish"

    ziyattin YILDIRIMÇAKAR · 2026 · Zenodo

    DatasetDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. The Theories of standardization of language and Kurdish language

    2026 · Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

  3. A Comprehensive Part-of-Speech Tagging to Standardize Central-Kurdish Language: A Research Guide for Kurdish Natural Language Processing Tasks

    Shadan Shukr Sabr, Nazira Sabr Mustafa, Talar Sabah Omar et al. · 2025 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  4. Struggling against Language Shift: Kurdish Language Education in Turkey

    Anu Leinonen · 2025 · Kurdish Studies Archive

    ChapterCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  5. English to Central Kurdish Speech Translation: Corpus Creation, Evaluation, and Orthographic Standardization

    Mohammad Mohammadamini, Daban Q. Jaff, Josep Crego et al. · 2026 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpenAIREOpen access

  6. KURDISH DIALECT CONTINUUM, AS A STANDARDIZATION SOLUTION

    Hewa Salam KHALID · 2015 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

  7. Kurdish language and multicultural education in Turkey

    Karol Kaczorowski · 2016 · Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University)

    ChapterOpenAlexOpen accessother-oa

  8. Turkey, Kurdish Education in

    2012 · Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education

    OtherCrossref

  9. Machine Translation Quality in Kurdish Literary Texts

    Rajaa Shukri Ahmed, Mozhgan Ghassemiazghandi · 2024 · Elsevier BV

    PreprintCrossref

  10. Initiatives to Improve Quality of Education in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Administration, School Monitoring, Private School Policies, and Teacher Training (Kurdish-language version)

    Georges Vernez, Shelly Culbertson, Louay Constant et al. · 2016 · RAND Corporation

    BookCrossref

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