Kurdish Alphabets

Kurdish Alphabets

The Kurdish language is written either using a variant of the Latin alphabet, according to a system introduced by Jeladet Ali Bedirkhan in 1932 (the so-called Bedirxan alphabet, or Hawar after the Hawar magazine), or using a variant of the Persian alphabet, the so-called Sorani alphabet, named for the city of Soran, Iraq.

The Hawar is used in Turkey, Syria and Armenia; the Sorani in Iraq and Iran. Two further systems are based on the Armenian alphabet and the Cyrillic script, historically used in Soviet Armenia.

A recent suggestion is the so-called Yekgirtú script, which proposes to unify the Hawar and Sorani systems.

Read more about Kurdish Alphabets:  Hawar Alphabet, Soranî Alphabet, Cyrillic Script, Armenian Alphabet, Uniform Turkic Alphabet Adaptation For Kurdish, Yekgirtú (IS), Comparison of Kurmancî, Yekgirtú and Soranî Alphabets