Grammar of the Kurmanji or Kurdish Language - Tapa blanda

The languages of Kurdistan are principally dialects of a main tongue termed by the Kurds Kurm?nj?, originally Kurdmah?, where the syllable mah has been thought to to mean 'Mede', a fact that supports the theory that the Kurds are the descendants of the Medes. Kurm?nj? and its most important branches, Southern Hakk?r? and Mukr?, B?b?n and Sulaim?nia in the South and Northern Hakk?r?, Erzer?m and B?yazid dialects in the North, are spoken by four or five million speakers. Contents: Part I The Alphabet and Pronunciation, The Parts of Speech, The noun, the Pronouns, The Adjective, The Verb ( The Auxiliaries 'to be' and 'to become', Regular Verbs/Regular Compound Verbs/Irregular Verbs, The Casual Verb, The Verbs in -?w?, Defecive Verbs), The Adverb, The Conjunctions, The Prepositions. Part II Idiomatic Uses, Oblique Narrative, Nouns: Plural in Nouns (Agreement of Plural in Nouns and Verbs, Dative Case in Nouns, Government of Nouns by prepositions, Consecutive and Chaldean Genitives, Compound Locatives), Pronouns: The Suffixial Pronouns of the Southern Group, Construction of Sentences, Comparisons of Southern and Northern Group dialects in Prose and Poetry, Prosody, Vocabulary. Re-edition. Written in English. Originally published 1913 in London.