Kurdish language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/kurdish-language

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the Kurdish language?Kurdish is a special language spoken by Kurdish people and is part of the Iranic branch of the Indo-European family.
2. Where do people who speak Kurdish live?Kurdish speakers live in the Zagros and Taurus mountains, the Armenian Highlands, and in countries like Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Iranic Languages: A subgroup of Indo-European languages originating from ancient Iran, including Persian, Pashto, and Kurdish.
Mutual Intelligibility: The degree to which speakers of different language varieties can understand each other without prior study.
Assimilationist Policies: Government or societal efforts aimed at making minority groups adopt the language and culture of the dominant group.
Orthography: The conventional spelling system of a language, including its alphabet and rules.