The Kurdish Alphabet

Kurdish Latin Alphabet

A a	B b	C c	Ç ç	D d	E e	Ê ê
F f	G g	H h	I i	Î î	J j	K k
L l	Ł ł	M m	N n	Ň ň	O o	P p
R r	Ř ř	S s	Ş ş	T t	U u	Û û
Ü ü	V v	W w	X x	Y y	Z z

The Kurdish Latin Alphabet uses the Latin script. It has been derived from the Kurdish Hawar alphabet.

Example and Conversion Table

Kurdish Latin Alphabet	Example	Cyrillic	Abjad
A a	a in after	А а	ا
B b	b in brother	Б б	ب
C c	j in jog	Щ щ	ج
Ç ç	ch in chat	Ч ч	چ
D d	d in door	Д д	د
E e	a in about / e in red	Ә ә	ە
Ê ê	ea in bear	Э э	ێ
F f	f in fast	Ф ф	ف
G g	g in goat	Г г	گ
H h	h in hill	Һ һ	ھ
I i	i in tip / io in station	Ь ь	ئ
Î î	ee in tree	И и	ی
J j	s in measure	Ж ж	ژ
K k	k in kite	К к	ک
L l	l in lesson	Л л	ل
Ł ł	ll in the Albanian word lloj	Л’ л’	ڵ
M m	m in milk	М м	م
N n	n in note	Н н	ن
Ň ň	ng in ring	нг	نگ
O o	o in shore	O o	ۆ
P p	p in pan	П п	پ
R r	r in the Spanish word pero	Р р	ر
Ř ř	rr in the Spanish word zorro	Р’ р’	ڕ
S s	s in sip	С с	س
Ş ş	sh in shell	Ш ш	ش
T t	t in tap	Т т	ت
U u	u in the Russian word sukhoj (сухой)	Ӧ ӧ	و
Û û	u in the Spanish word tortuga	У у	وو
Ü ü	ü in the German word über	——–	ۊ
V v	v in vest	В в	ڤ
W w	w in water	Ԝ ԝ	و
X x	ch in the German word buch	Х х	خ
Y y	y in year	Й й	ی
Z z	z in zebra	З з	ز

We have removed the letter Q.

The letter Q, along with the sound it represents, are not from the Kurdish language.

The letter Ü is seen in the Kełhuřî dialect of the Kurdish language.

Kurdish translation of the word “Blood“

Kurdish – Kełhuřî	Xün
Kurdish – Luřî	Xwîn
Kurdish – Kurmancî	Xwîn
Kurdish – Soranî	Xwên
Kurdish – Hewramî	Winî
Kurdish – Zazakî	Gonî

Kurdish-Luřî “Xwîn”, and its diphthong “xw” existing in Modern Kurdish, is currently fully preserved in the Lekî accent of the Luřî dialect of the Kurdish language. The shortening of the word in some instances to “Xîn” and “Xî” have been omitted and standardised.

Kurdish – Avestan

Vohuni

NOTE: The Kurdish Latin Alphabet is used for all Modern Dialects of the Kurdish language, rather than the ancient/ historical varieties of the Kurdish language. “Vohuni” is not presented in the Kurdish Latin Alphabet because it is the transliteration of the word “blood” in the Median-Avestan variety of the Kurdish language. The Avestan variety of the Kurdish language was spoken in the early 2nd Millennium BCE.

The Kurdish language has been spoken by people known as Kurds, native to the Zagros-Taurus mountains, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Transcaucasia, for thousands of years. The native people of this region developed two ancient writing systems known as Sumerian Cuneiform and Linear Elamite. The Kurdish language needs to use a writing script of its own. The Kurdish language should return to these writing scripts.

Cuneiform was used as early as the 4th millennium BCE within the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia. It began as Archaic Cuneiform until becoming Early Dynastic Cuneiform in the mid-3rd millennium BCE.

Elamite (Linear Elamite) was used as early as the 3rd millennium BCE within the Îlam region of the Zagros mountains.

Update:
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Kurdish Writing

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