Dictionnaire kurde-Kurdish dictionary

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– Bruxelles: CEPMMC, 1965, – 266 p.The vocabulary contained in this dictionary has been drawn from texts published since 1932 in this transcription. Most of the words it contains belong to the Northern Kurdish, or kurmandji language. In some cases words from the Southern Kurdish language, sorani, have been chosen where these are more generally used. The dictionary is based on the language as taught at the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, at Paris, where the chair of Kurdish has been held since 1947, by Emir Kamuran Aali Bedir Khan. Thus this dictionary should be regarded as giving both classical Kurdish and the modern language as it is written nowadays. The compiler expresses her thanks to Emir Kamuran Aali Bedir Khan, not only for his instruction but for his guidance and help at every stage of this work. The fact that this book is more than the short Kurdish-French glossary which had originally been envisaged is due to the Director of the Centre of the Problems of the Contemporary Moslem World who has encouraged her in this enterprise from the outset, impelling her to develop it and make it available for English-speaking students. It is also thanks to him that the numbered French and English indexes planned in the first place have been given up and replaced by French-Kurdish and English-Kurdish dictionaries which will be appearing in one volume, separately. Her great debt to him must be acknowledged here.