WIKITONGUES: Mohamad speaking Kurmanji Kurdish

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This video was recorded by Mohamad Saeed in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Northern Kurdish, also known as Kurmanji, is largely spoken in southeast Turkey, northwest Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria, and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions by the Kurdish people. The Kurds are a stateless group, meaning they do not possess a state of their own and are considered a minority ethnic group within Iran, which explains the wide distribution of the Kurdish language. It is the most spoken form of Kurdish -- the other Kurdish varieties are Sorani, Southern Kurdish, and Laki. Kurmanji itself is incredibly diverse, forming a dialect continuum containing six recognized dialects: Northwestern Kurmanji, Southwestern Kurmanji, Northern Kurmanji, Southern Kurmanji, Southeastern Kurmanji, and Anatolian Kurmanji. The earliest Kurmanji records date back to around the 16th century and include the works of prominent poets like Ahmad Khani. Kurmanji is also the chosen ceremonial language of Yazidis. The Kurdish languages that form the Kurdish continuum are together an official language of Iraq alongside Arabic, a regional language of Iran, and a minority language of Armenia.
Northern Kurdish was spoken by roughly 20 million people worldwide as of 2009, but that number is thought to be decreasing. Northern Kurdish belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
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[@chestersakamoto6843]

What a beautiful, pleasant-sounding language. Of course, it helps that the gentleman speaking it has a nice, calming voice and a friendly face.

[@tamarabeniamini]

Ez ji Îtalyayî me û Kurmancî ji sê mehan ve dixwînim. Ew pir delal li ber dilê min e ❤️

[@mechulasi1514]

Axaftina te gelek xweşe dixwazim te nasbikim û ji te ra alîkari bikim.

[@tamarabeniamini]

@@mechulasi1514 Tu li ser Facebookê yî?

[@mechulasi1514]

@@tamarabeniamini mın ji te ra daxwaz avêt

[@emirkanceylanilemuzik2993]

@@mechulasi1514 kral hemen yürü aq jsjshdhshs

[@lavieenconfinement3511]

@@tamarabeniamini hey Tamara ez jî kurdim li Fransa û io voglio parlo Italiano 😂 Twitter an Facebook te heye?

[@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose]

I didn't know that in Syria it is still forbidden to speak in Kurdish. By the way: he looks really polite and gentle. ♡

[@тито-к9в]

it’s not in Rojava, which is why it’s such an important place. Bijî berxwedan Rojava!

[@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose]

@@тито-к9в Bijî herbijî ♡♡♡

[@9_9876]

@@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose I think it's in turkey, he said "merhaba" but maybe it's also a Kurd general word

[@ariakadir7669]

Utåhråptor are you thick or something it’s Kurdish Kurmanji it not Turkish get your languages right

[@shlovankelleri]

Thanks for the compliment :) It wasn't actually forbidden to speak the language in private places but learning the language was definitely forbidden before 2011 and speaking it in public places would in a lot of cases end up with problems. Any teachers that offered teaching the language were prosecuted by the state to make sure it doesn't flourish. Nowadays and because of all the chaos and changes Syria lived, Kurdish is being taught and studied in Northeastern Syria and was in Afrin too before the Turkish army with it's Syrian mercenaries occupied the region. I heard also that the university of Damascus offers Kurdish studies at the "Higher Institute of Languages".

[@519forestmonk9]

It’s a beautiful Indo European language

[@roj1512]

I wish the speakers of it were free like you to explore languages.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@user Persian is even more mixed with Arabic, lol

[@xololomejor]

Yes, for sure it is. But my favorite Indo-European language is the Russian one

[@xololomejor]

@user then I have to hear a native Armenian speaking it.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@user Armenian is your favorite language, because you are Armenian lol

[@cebecyanki]

He has a really strong Kurdish accent 👍 I like this language and im also interested in Kurdish culture and cuisine 😇

[@mohamed-2711]

very thick accent. Lol.

[@zazakurdish7472]

Kirdish language very melodic, vas very ruch range of words ))

[@berevaji5372]

Her bijî birayê hêja. Mala te ava. Çavê min li rêya Kurmanciya şirîn bû li ser Wikitonguesê, spas ji bo beşdariya te. Û ji bo te Alaya me ya Rengîn jî tevlî vê vîdyoyê kiriye dîsa siheta te xweş, her hebî! 👏👏

[@shlovankelleri]

Gelek spas!!

[@ryanchon8702]

he has a beautiful voice

[@seyithan73]

Silav û Rêz Bira Her Bijî Kurd û Kurdistan

[@mcmelre]

What a beautiful language! Very pleasing to the ears.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

Thanks. Are you Kurdish?

[@mcmelre]

@@kurdekibedin1347 no, I am American.

[@heroabdullaggareb3886]

As a sorani speaker I undertsand about 80-90% percent of what he is saying

[@muhammetturan2487]

Sorani kurmanci super fahm dıke Ama em badini sorani fahm nakn çıma?

[@SanRevan47]

As a Sorani speaker, I understand 99% or simply all of it. The only words that we might not recognize it fast is "Ti" in the video, we say "hich" which means "nothing". And he says "Zimaneki zelal", the word "zelal" means "pure" is a loanword from Aramaic or either Arabic "Zulal". Instead we use Kurdish words like "pak, begard" which exist in his dialect as well.

[@intel2133]

​@@SanRevan47Kurdish Alphabet is latin ?

[@SanRevan47]

Northern Kurdish dialect and Zazaki are mostly written in Latin scripts, meanwhile central Kurdish, Gorani and southern Kurdish are written in Arabic scripts (with new alphabets and different way of spelling@@intel2133

[@rezginreyo765]

@@SanRevan47zalal is pure Kurdish, arabs dont say zalal? It does not mean clear/pure in arabic? I dont know about aramaic. But who is to say who spoke the Word first? It might as Well be fully Kurdish in origin and then others borrowed it.

[@ThePumpingiron27]

I have met a few Kurds and they are such sweet people! Would love to learn a Kurdish language. Very pretty!

[@muhammedsener8241]

🌷

[@emirkanceylanilemuzik2993]

Bunun Türkçeleri geldi aklıma Kürt arkadaşlarım var ama çok iyi insanlar diye shahsh

[@kurdishcaptionsteam5377]

Bira ez ji hewlêr im ù ez soranîm welê kurmancî baş te digem û zaraveyêka asane ji bo min sliav ji te û bijî zimana şîrîna me û biji kurd û kurdistana me.

[@stephenhaval6769]

بژی براکەم منیش خەلکی هەولێر بەلام بە زاراوەی کوردی بادینی قسەدەکەم کە بەشێک لە کورمانجی وە شانازی بە سەرجەم زاراوەکانی زمانی کوردی دەکەم

[@shazadobaid2062]

@@stephenhaval6769 تۆ دڵی کوردستانی برام ❤❤

[@hassanzebari516]

وةلا ئةززيش سوراني دزانم ولحةمي كوردا تيدكةهم

[@shazadobaid2062]

@@hassanzebari516 ❤❤❤

[@kurdim20]

سەیرە ! زۆربەی سورانەکان دەڵێن بادینی یان کورمانجی وەک فەرەنسی و هندی یە لێی تێناگەین !. . تەنانەت هەندێکیشیان گالتە بە زاراوەی منی کرد 😒 .. خوزگە هەموو وەکو تۆ هەوڵ بدەن کە تێبگەن چونکی ئەویش هەر کوردی یە !

[@jejemou5382]

Bravo Said♥️♥️♥️ From Sweeden to Germany Jîn

[@shlovankelleri]

When I made it I thought it's cool but I was nervous tho lol. Now I see it, it's kinda cringe; could've done better in a more freely spoken way. Whatever...

[@Wikitongues]

@@shlovankelleri hey, Kristen here! I think your video is lovely :) if there is anything you want to add or change in the future, you can always send it in and we are happy to upload a newer version. Thanks again!

[@itacom2199]

Long live Rojava!

[@Bocuma]

biji berxwedana rojava!

[@itacom2199]

@@Bocuma what language do you speak?

[@polnocblog]

@@itacom2199 lol

[@berevaji5372]

@@itacom2199 He has written in Kurmanji Kurdish, the same language with the guy in the video speaks. Basically he wrote "Long live Rojava's resistance!"

[@itacom2199]

@@berevaji5372 Oh, thank you!

[@sirrykr1679]

Languages are the source of all our communication, culture, education and knowledge. It is so sad when governments and groups try to limit or erase languages. They enrich our world. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live in a world were no language had international dominance like English, French or Spanish or if Mandarin was just one of many official languages of China or if Arabic haf not gained dominance in the Middle East. What if we lived in á world where it is perfectly normal for kids to speak 3 different languages. Well done you to have learned this language. I am from Iceland so Icelandic is my native language which I love. But I also loved learning English and German at school, but was a little less enthusiastic about Danish, which I can read with no problem but dont really speak.

[@abcxyz9852]

It's so sad I didn't recognize this language before! I'm trying to learn it but I'm butchering the pronounciation 😭 Hopefully I'll find some Natives someday that are willing to let me listen

[@sinarzaito8741]

I'm a native speaker, if you have any question over pronunciation you can ask me🙂

[@Berxwedan.]

I’m a native Kurmanjî speaker if you need any help just ask ❤

[@juanmou9413]

Gelek spas bo te spasiya te dikim ez jî ji Rojavayê Kurdistanê ❤️☀️💚me ji bajarê Efrînê 🤪 her bijî ji te re û bijî Kurd û Kurdistan

[@susanneleopard9779]

Thank you for this! I'm meeting a new friend who speaks kurmanji soon, and try to find out as much as possible. Sounds great. I want to learn the basic greeting, so will keep looking.

[@hevidaruby4049]

how’s it going

[@BNSFGuy4723]

Cool language, Selam from Gostivar, Maqedoni ❤️

[@johnlopez6]

Hello, are there Kurdish speakers in Macedonia? Thank you.

[@a7a416]

We say slav in kurdish not salam😁

[@BNSFGuy4723]

@@a7a416 cool, we say selam in Macedonia, at least, we Albanians do. But in Macedonian you can say zdravo

[@a7a416]

@@BNSFGuy4723 cool balkan languages are really interesting some of them are very similar to kurdish

[@BNSFGuy4723]

@@a7a416 I think it’s because of Turkish influence. Albanian borrowed a lot of Turkish words and Turkish borrowed lots of words from Farsi and Kurdish

[@genm6762]

Sehr schön!

[@kurdishgirl9141]

Bakur Başur Rojava Rojhelat =Kurdistan ✌❤ ❤❤❤❤❤ ⬜⬜🌞⬜⬜ 💚💚💚💚💚 HER BIJÎ KURD U KURDISTAN ✌

[@suoree]

what does mean "Rojhelat" i see channel tv like this in FTA channels at my satelite hw :>

[@SanKosar2005]

@@suoree it means east

[@harrank2786]

@@suoree Rojhelat~ Roj + Helat: Roj means Sun, helat means rises. The place where sun rises refers to “East”, eastern” portion of Kurdistan.

[@KurdXorasan]

Bijîn, Hez degen Kurd Xorasan nas gen verêne çebêla min

[@sorandeutsch5056]

دەست خۆش بێت

[@slavops9599]

I’m half Soranî half Kalhur Kurdish speaker and understood everything

[@gohangul6444]

Karışık bir aksanmı sizinkisi

[@muhammetturan2487]

Çıma kurdé bakur sorani nızanın

[@gohangul6444]

@@muhammetturan2487bilimiyorum kendi lehçeleri var

[@desertratz307]

Dem baş, navê min Jon e. Bijî Kurdistan. That's about all I know lol. And I can recognize Rojava, Başûr, and I think I heard dijmin.

[@Hellodarknessmyoldfriend26]

As a kurdish sorani speaker from bashur i understood everything i used to think that i would not understand kurmanji but i litreally understand everything because all of our words are exactly the same but pronounced with a different accent .and also in school they taught us both sorani and kurmanji i really want to learn zazaki kurdish because it is really similar to kurmanji .it is really a blessing to know kurdish because we have words that explains certain feelings perfectly which do not exist in many other languages i hope one day all kurds would be allowed to learn our beautiful language and i hope one day we get our freedom ❤

[@Lost7one]

I can guarantee you that if his parents spoke it would sounds very different, this is "university kurmanci", which is all very fine and easier to understand.

[@zantistan]

Sounds so similar to Balochi. I am interested to learn Kurdish ❤️

[@thenextbigthing488]

I also understand Balochi very well

[@shlovankelleri]

I don't know if true, but I heard that Balochi is similar to Kurmanji more than Persian.

[@hevalkhan1936]

You can learn easy.Because Balouc and Kurds same familiy.

[@aone5787]

@@shlovankelleri It would have been a bit true if Balochi accent didn't sound like pakis

[@gohangul6444]

@@shlovankelleri Baloch ve Kürt aynı soydan tarihte bir birinden ayrılan bir halk kimisi kendisine Kürt dedi kimisi Baloch dediler

[@Equin]

as an arab it sounds like a mix of arabic, turkish and persian really cool language

[@kurdekibedin1347]

funny thing is that both turkish and persian have more arabic loanwords than kurdish. and he not even used one "turkish" word in this video.

[@Equin]

@@kurdekibedin1347 yeah I understand I am just talking about the way it sounds also question what are the main dialects of kurdish and are they all mutually intelligible?

[@introtwerp]

Hes handsome too

[@KM-lg9fk]

The earliest records of Kurmancî Kurdish are from 10th century (written Kurmancî). But all Kurdish dialects were spoken since two to three thousands of years in the area where Kurds are inhabitants and call it Kurdistan.

[@rebwarnamiqkadir3750]

Hello I speak sorani I wish to learn this other kurdish dialect

[@RRR.1946]

Zor xosh bu bardawamba

[@suzdarmohamad4967]

We say Slav not marhaba Slav is a Kurdish word which means hello

[@shlovankelleri]

But a lot of people use merheba too

[@stephenhaval6769]

@@shlovankelleri yeah But IT'S NOT KURDISH

[@JOE-bm9oq]

People dont use merheba at all. In all my time there Ive not once heard a man begin a conversation with an arabic word.

[@shlovankelleri]

@@JOE-bm9oq Yeah, I don't know were you've been but I'm Kurdish from Afrin and we use merheba all the time; you'll rarely hear someone saying slav. And I think a lot of other Kurmanj Kurds in Turkey use merheba as a standard.

[@berkylmaz2973]

Marhaba and slav are arabic in origin.

[@KBBelite47]

translation merhaba,dem bash navê min shilovan e û ez niha bi kurdiya kurmancî diaxivim *merhaba, good time (like good morning/evening) name is shlovan and iam right now speaking i kurmancî kurdish* kurmancî zeraveyek ji pênc zeraveyên zimanê kurdî e ku kurdên li bakûre kurdistanê û rojavayê kurdistanê diaxivin *kurmancî is one of five dialects of the kurdish language which is beeing spoken by kurds in bakur (north of Kurrdistan/ Turkey) and rojava (western kurdistan/norht syria/rojava).* ez bi xwe fêrî zimanê zelal fêrî ev zimanê kurmancî bi tenê bûm ji ber kû li sûriyê (ez ji sûriyê hatime ji rojavayê kurdistanê) li wedê zimanê kurmancî qedexe bû *I learnd the clear language tis kurmancî language by my self becaus in syria ( i came from syria, from rojava) the kurdish language was not allowed to be spoken there* tu nikanê bi zimanê xwe fêr bibe niha ez li almaniya dijim li bajarê kolnê û ez weka penaber hatim almaniya sala duhazar û pazdeh û... ez hîn chi bêjim... kurmancî zimanekî gelekî xwesh e *you cant learn your language. now i am livin in germany in the city of cologne an i am living here as a refugee since the year 2015 and ... what can i say else ... kurmancî is a very nice language* ez ji vî zimanî gelekî/zaf/zor hez dikim û dixwazim ku rojek were kur ev qedexebûn ji ser wI rabe ta ku her kesî kurd yan jî ne kurd kanibê bi vî zimanî fêr bibe binivîse û biaxive... li her der *i love this language very much and would like to see days were the ban will be lift and every kurd or nonkurd ( who wnat to )can learn to undestand, write and speak it... anywhere.* ew daxwaza min e...û wekî din ez spasiya we hamuan dikim spasiya hamu temashavanên vê videoyê dikim û daxwaza min kû hûn di xêre û shahiye da bimînin ... bi xatirê we *that is my wish... furthermore i thank you all i thank everyone who have seen this video and my wish is that you all will live in luck and happiness...good bye*

[@brendalatiffah9277]

Cool!

[@empiremediankurde8562]

Merhaba is not Kurdish , Slav is a Kurdish

[@desertratz307]

I've heard Merheba and Slav. I have pen pals in Rojava and they all say Merheba.

[@KurdeQonya]

Silav is deriverd from Salam! Silav is the kurdifized form of salam=silam=silav!

[@talip72]

Ereb ne dujmine mene !

[@empiremediankurde8562]

@@talip72 🤣🤣🤣🤣ker qurê kerê

[@sahandsan3458]

Merheba is an Arabic word (Silav) or (Silaw) or (Em katet bash) or (Dem bash) are Kurdish words that represents 'Hello' or 'Hi' By the way you can use (Salam) which is Arabic (if your religion is Islam and you are religious)

[@desertratz307]

He said Merheba and dem baş, Merheba is pretty common in Rojava. It's a dialect thing I think.

[@teknul89]

@@desertratz307 ​ Merheba is just the way how Muslims greeting each other it could also have been Selam Aleykum if he wanted to do a Kurdish greeting he could have said Silav u rez or Rojbas

[@cranberriesgirlhype8292]

First impression of this language. Hot! I just met someone who said they were Kurdish. I have heard of the Kurdish people but wanted to know what the language sounded like spoken. Thanks for this video. 🤘

[@sana.princess1432]

Tu galak jane😍🥰

[@emanuelacerneva4389]

what is your kurdish dialect? i learned some stuff from my friend like "ez 7esh ta dkam" or "to ya jani"

[@7mad211]

@@emanuelacerneva4389 ez 7esh dkam mean I like you and to ya jani mean you are beautiful

[@kurdim20]

I'm Kurdish from Kurdistan Region .. Duhok city.. I speak Badini (Kurmanji) .. 🙂

[@WilliamAlex]

I speak Sorani 😁 چۆنی کورە، باشی؟ ههه

[@kurdim20]

@@WilliamAlex باشم سوپاس 😅

[@sibylleschwarzer9798]

Ich möchte auch Kurdisch lernen🤗👋

[@zazakurdish7472]

Ich lerne aus social media. Meine muttersprache zata kurdisch. Durch assimilation hatte ich 90% vergessen. Letzte 2 jahre lerne ich durch social media, und mit kurmanci kurdusch zusammen. Auf youtube gibst ein paar kanale, aus facebook ein paar Zimane Kurdi gruppen.

[@7s7ss7s22]

I speak kurmanji I'm asheeti and I'm from Syria but I was raised in Saudi Arabia

[@tanjuyavsan4844]

Respect 💖

[@KM-lg9fk]

do u speak kurdi on a daily basis?

[@lateblossom]

One of my favorite languages in the whole world. It actually sounds just a tad Frenchy if you listen closely.

[@kooshashahvar1320]

I speak farsi and understand like 60 present

[@kurdekibedin1347]

No, not possible. Kurdish and Persian are more different to each other than English and German. You only think that you understand it because of the subtitles.

[@kooshashahvar1320]

@@kurdekibedin1347 no i just understand it i know a little Arabic so maybe that’s way but it sounds similar to Balochi to me i like it is like mix if Persian and balochi .and by the way Kurdish and Persian are lot more similar to each other then french to english i speak french and its not that common that you find similar words but in this I understand most of the words and i can tell the subject is about . btw I didn’t have subtitles on .

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@@kooshashahvar1320 nope, you don't understand it. If you like I will show you a video and you will have to translate it. By the way: balochi is a northwestern Iranian language and originally comes from a region where Kurdish is still spoken. So in fact balochi comes from Kurdish. And balochi sounds like a indic version of Kurdish. Kurdish sounds absolutely not like a Indian language.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@@kooshashahvar1320 And Persian consists of over 60% Arabic loanwords

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@@kooshashahvar1320 and : Persian and Kurdish are more different to each other than English and German. How do I know this? There is a website where you can see how similar two languages are to each other. The lower the number the more similar the languages are to each other. Here is the link. Go and compare Kurdish - Persian and than English - German. And remember: the LOWER the number the more similar the languages are to each other. Here is the link: www.elinguistics.net/Compare_Languages.aspx

[@mfk1234567890]

Hard to understand but sounds so much like Pashto.

[@7mad211]

gorani dialect is much more similar to pashto

[@IamSlvn]

Her bijî ❤️

I am zazaki ( kırmanciki ) I understand dialect %70

[@GeoAlekos]

Wonderful language

[@mehmetokay]

Gellek spas ji bo vî Kurdîya akademik u xweş...

[@omerahmed7883]

Believe me i understand everything you said even i don't speak kurdish-kurmanji 😅

[@slavops9599]

Whats ur native language?

[@omerahmed7883]

@@slavops9599 Sorani dialect

[@someone8441]

@@omerahmed7883 I'm a Kurmanc Kurdish i can understand Sorani Kurdish . We are one. Her biji Kurd ☀️✌️

[@husband-of-chinggis]

Absolute class language

[@ahmozana8557]

Silav û Rêz Ji te re Heval û ji hemû gelê me nî Kurd ❤️✌🏿

[@slavops9599]

He is talking about how Kurdish language is banned in his homeland Kurdistan occupied by Syria.

[@mazyar_]

All of Kurdistan belongs to Iran, because all Kurds are Iranian and Kurdish is a branch of the Iranian Languages

[@slavops9599]

@@mazyar_ 😂😂

[@mazyar_]

@@slavops9599 You can laugh all you want, the Truth remains the same.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

@@mazyar_ free east kurdistan, free South azerbaijan, free ahvaz, free balochistan

[@ArcanumArcanorum17]

​@@kurdekibedin1347 This iranian kurd from kermanshah doesn't approve

[@gutianwarrior7993]

Lol. I am Kurmanji Kurdish aswell, I understood 60-65%

[@samb1027]

How come you didn't understand it all

[@gutianwarrior7993]

sam b 60-65% is not equivalent to “nothing at all”. As stated in my comment, I did not understand roughly 4/10, of what he said.

[@samb1027]

@@gutianwarrior7993 is it because you speak a different kurmanji or what beacuse we lurs also have different dialects and we cant allways understand each other

[@gutianwarrior7993]

sam b Yes exactly, we speak a more old Kurdish, than people of Eastern Turkey (Bakur).

[@samb1027]

@@gutianwarrior7993 so you must be from rojava?

[@Kevin-vg5wh]

ZIMAŇÊ MIŇÊ ŞÊRÎN ✌🏼🤍✨ SILAV Û RÊZ JI ZAXOKA ŞÊRÎN

[@tekoshinammo7838]

bra ez ji kurde rojava me, ez li almanya ce bume. silav 👍🏽

[@user-bb6xg9xy7r]

Az soran ima krmanji galak asana

[@tatertot2312]

I understood like every 3rd word

[@s_01_27]

I understand what he is saying, but not word by word. I speak Farsi

[@qselector]

❤🇮🇷🦁☀🙏

[@Lena-uh3ky]

I would love to know what he is saying.please help 🙏

[@KBBelite47]

merhaba,dem bash navê min shilovan e û ez niha bi kurdiya kurmancî diaxivim *merhaba, good time (like good morning/evening) name is shlovan and iam right now speaking i kurmancî kurdish* kurmancî zeraveyek ji pênc zeraveyên zimanê kurdî e ku kurdên li bakûre kurdistanê û rojavayê kurdistanê diaxivin *kurmancî is one of five dialects of the kurdish language which is beeing spoken by kurds in bakur (north of Kurrdistan/ Turkey) and rojava (western kurdistan/norht syria/rojava).* ez bi xwe fêrî zimanê zelal fêrî ev zimanê kurmancî bi tenê bûm ji ber kû li sûriyê (ez ji sûriyê hatime ji rojavayê kurdistanê) li wedê zimanê kurmancî qedexe bû *I learnd the clear language tis kurmancî language by my self becaus in syria ( i came from syria, from rojava) the kurdish language was not allowed to be spoken there* tu nikanê bi zimanê xwe fêr bibe niha ez li almaniya dijim li bajarê kolnê û ez weka penaber hatim almaniya sala duhazar û pazdeh û... ez hîn chi bêjim... kurmancî zimanekî gelekî xwesh e *you cant learn your language. now i am livin in germany in the city of cologne an i am living here as a refugee since the year 2015 and ... what can i say else ... kurmancî is a very nice language* ez ji vî zimanî gelekî/zaf/zor hez dikim û dixwazim ku rojek were kur ev qedexebûn ji ser wI rabe ta ku her kesî kurd yan jî ne kurd kanibê bi vî zimanî fêr bibe binivîse û biaxive... li her der *i love this language very much and would like to see days were the ban will be lift and every kurd or nonkurd ( who wnat to )can learn to undestand, write and speak it... anywhere.* ew daxwaza min e...û wekî din ez spasiya we hamuan dikim spasiya hamu temashavanên vê videoyê dikim û daxwaza min kû hûn di xêre û shahiye da bimînin ... bi xatirê we *that is my wish... furthermore i thank you all i thank everyone who have seen this video and my wish is that you all will live in luck and happiness...good bye*

[@slavops9599]

😻

[@aramgt8923]

Ez jî kûrdîstan ê kurmancî.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

ALLAH BLESS!

[@TheTripstraps]

do nouns have genders ? like for example in German language

[@Wikitongues]

Yes, good catch! Kurmanji Kurdish has three grammatical genders (feminine, masculine, neuter) and declination in four cases (nominative, oblique, construct, and vocative). Thank you for watching! :)

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@Wikitongues Only southern dialect has it.

[@iomreq2301]

@@blacksea-caspiansea9504 only the northern* (bakuri) dialects (kurmanji, zazaki) has genders

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@iomreq2301 Ah thank you, i said the opposite. And Zazaki too. But idk much about sorani, does sorani have genders?

[@blacksea-caspiansea9504]

@@Wikitongues it has not neuter.

[@kurdiwelatparez8346]

💚💚💚❤❤❤👍👍👍

[@TodayFreedom]

Really decent people. And thank you for fighting ISIS- the world owes the Kurds and Iranians and Iraqis a huge debt of gratitude for this. 👍🏻

[@bauerjan7887]

Lol that instrument looks like our kazakh dombıra. But ours have 2 strings and a hole in the middle.

[@ucanat625]

The word "Dombra" comes from the Iranian "Tanbur" and we are Iranic.

[@bauerjan7887]

@@ucanat625 I think iranic word tanbur comes from our dombıra

[@ucanat625]

@@bauerjan7887 Hahahaha, bro you can search. I heard this information from my Turkish teacher in Turkey. Iranic written history is much more ancient than Turkic history.

[@bauerjan7887]

@@ucanat625 ok Best wishes to all persian people

[@sher7174]

@@ucanat625 Bro who gives a fuck Most Turkic speakers today are literally Iranic people by origin by majority. Their culture screams Iranic. Ironically a Kazakh is culturally much closer to a Kurd than a Turkey Turk is to a Kazakh. I am speaking from facts lol.

[@KurdXorasan]

Bijîn, Hez degen Kurdê Xorasanê nas bigen verêne çenêla min

[@JengoAykut2]

الغة الكرمانجية هو الغة الفصحى الكوردية وجميع الهجات تابعة لها

[@gamer_girl99_]

Almanya dayim kurdi zor leya

[@ranshahr21]

درود دادا

[@gamer_girl99_]

I speak sorani but i want to learn kurmanji too

[@resulyoutube]

I'm Kurdish and speak the Kurmanji dialect, but I don't know what he said. (Keep in mind, the Kurmanji Dialect I speak is from the Province of Konya, in Turkey)

[@teyre_baze_kurd]

that's because your subdialect of Kurmancî is not even in the peripheral area of Northern Kurdistan, but instead it's completely outside of Kurdistan, namely in Central Anatolia. That's why you have difficulties with understanding him. He's speaking standard Kurmancî Kurdish, which is based on the Botanî subdialect of Kurmancî.

[@resulyoutube]

@@teyre_baze_kurd Oh, that's why. Thank you for the info!

[@jakelol6532]

sounds really sismilar to hungarian \

[@Vampzio]

Might be true but hungarian is not related to this language. Hungarians claim they are related to turks.

[@linnenowl8031]

I speak qarmanji but the words I say are different maybe Becsude ism from sinjar

[@stephenhaval6769]

Shut up! We don't say merhaba in kurmancî we say slav

[@shlovankelleri]

Hmm, Yeah it'd be really nice if we only use Kurdish or Iranian words but the reality says otherwise right now because of the oppression and the lack of an organised education system :)

[@shlovankelleri]

Min dikarî bigota "silav", lê min got merheba û herdû peyv têne bikaranîn di Kurmancî de hevalê min û bi rûmet.

[@stephenhaval6769]

@@shlovankelleri belê merheba dihet bikaranîn lê ne kurdî ye, divê em zmanê xwe bi parêzin ji peyv û hevokên biyanî.

[@shlovankelleri]

Cara bê :)

[@empiremediankurde8562]

@@shlovankelleri merhaba çîye heval , bı kurdî Slaw anjî silaw Slav ,

[@evdalzarrinolbistan]

We usually use "Silav û Rez" instead of "Hello" and "Pak" instead of "Zelal".

[@JengoAykut2]

The Kurmanji language is the standard language and all dialects belong to it

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

There are four kurdish language. Kurmanji, Sorani, Kelhuri and Leki. Size ranking of languages by number of speakers; Kurmanji>Kelhuri>Soranî>Leki.

[@gurgstyle]

There are way more Sorani speaers then Kelhuri.

[@gurgstyle]

Kelhuri is Sorani. It's just a little different. I know Kelhuri people and they speak exactly the same as a Sorani speaker with a little different accent. Lori is different that is more complex.

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

GURGSTYLE Yes. You are right. Number of Sorani speakers: 4.527.000; number of Kelhuri speakers: 3.000.000 (but just speakers of eastern Kurdistan. Without south Kurdistan’s Kelhuri speakers)

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

GURGSTYLE I think you are not a philologist. And philology says Kelhuri a different language from Sorani language. By the way Lurish is a south-west iranian language not north-west.

[@babankurdmohammed1242]

@@Kurdedunaysiri There is about almost 15-20 million Sorani speakers. Kelhuri I can understand 100% even my Kurmanci is good if you listen to one dialect for 1 month straight you will understand it

[@Joseph00993]

Kurdi❤

[@hetzh4720]

Bijî rojava Slav le gep trîn parîzgey rohilat, kirmaşan

[@SanRevan47]

سڵام لە باشوورەو ئەڕا ڕووژهەڵات و ڕووژاڤا. وە ئوومید ئازادبیون کوردستانمان

[@zaningehafeqiyeteyran3274]

Li rojava rêveberîya xweser dest bi perwerda zimanê Kurdî kirîye qasî ez zanim. Ger kesên dixwaze Kurdî fêr bibe anjî kurdî zane ne ewqas baş werim ba me gelek vîdyo hene ku hûn baştir bibin.

[@moatmj60]

اللغة الكردية بالذات الكرمانجية بيلزمها وقت لتكون قواعد موحدة. كونها لغة ايرانية قديمة تنتقل من مرحلة البداوة الى مرحلة التمدن.

[@achillesjr5177]

Wow beautiful language, sounds like french

[@sha5329]

Marhaba is not kurdish heval, Marhaba= arabic Slav vs Slau is kurdish

[@zehra8418]

What is the name this man

[@balo92]

but he said his name is Sheluvan not Mohamad like your wrote???!!!!!1

[@hunerhadi]

respect

[@siyabend]

Ji bo strane kurmanci subscribe bikin🙏🤗

[@bhka6423]

Lol, he uses Arabic throat sounds. The Kurmanji speakers I know don’t do that.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

And your "dialect" sounds just like Persian, but with a bit different vocabulary

[@kurdekibedin1347]

"Al-Kermashani" hahaahah. And you're complaining about Arabic?

[@michaelinidapo574]

ich bin Jezidin und spreche kurmanci . Ich komme aus Batman .Ich verstehe fast alles aber du benutzt teilweise andere andere worter als wir ....

[@kurdemedia5955]

Naja das gute an Kurmanji ist, es ist eine Riesige vielfältige Sprache mit unzählige Wörtern. Für jedes Gegenstand oder Word gibt es mehrere Namen und Bezeichnungen. Jede Region hat ihr eigenes Kurmanji. Und das ist gut, den somit sind sehr viele alte Wörter aus Kurmanji erhalten geblieben und sind nicht verloren gegangen. Wenn plötzlich alle Kurden das gleiche Kurmanji sprechen würden, würde vieles in Vergessenheit geraten.

[@iomreq2301]

qurbana te bim êzidiya me ya can 🙏🏻❤️

[@sosin6864]

Hey, ich bin auch Ezdi aus Batman. Ich glaube der Grund warum er andere Wörter benutzt, liegt daran, dass er komplett Kurmanci spricht. Unsere Leute aus Nordkurdistan mixen immer wieder ein paar türkische und arabische Wörter mit ins Kurmanci. Dazu kommt auch noch, dass alle Stämme/Gundîs auch untereinander andere Wörter benutzen. :)

[@alevilikvealeviler]

This is NEO-KURDISH, not ANCIENT-KURDISH. Ancient - Kurdish are: Gorani - Leki - Kirmancki - Adhari - Feyli - Luri. Whilst Neo - Kurdish is: Kurmanci and Sorani.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

Lol

[@Kurdo_Barznji_Slemani]

I don't know for Kurmanji, but for Sorani I agree... The oldest written texts or poems in Sorani go back to 900 years ago from Karkuk (Kirkuk) city, modern Iraqi Kurdistan. While Kurds in Kirkuk and Sharazur were writing in Gorani before Sorani. The poem is written by Pir Ahmed Kirkuki Yarsani پیر ئەحمەد کەرکووکی یارسانی. Who was a Kurd speaking central Kurdish language, and a follower of Yarsanism religion.

[@sher7174]

@@kurdekibedin1347 He is not very wrong though just put it falsely Hawrami, Leki/Kelhuri, Kirmancki are closer to proto Kurdish but Kurmanji and Sorani have gone through more loudshift. The reason being that Kurmanji and Sorani are the most widespred variants while the other lived better in isolation.

[@iomreq2301]

and what’s wrong with that? kurmancî literally goes back to 14th century. how is it a neo-dialect?

[@sullivanhass6592]

Biji heval

[@daniele.tbarrett1630]

No german flag😒 but kurdish 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mynewemail3356]

Did he switch to French at 0:35?

[@sirrykr1679]

A question. Would a native speaker of Persian understand Kurdish. If not I am guessing Persian speakers would find it relatively easy to learn.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

No

[@evdalzarrinolbistan]

A native Persian speaker can understand Kurdish at a rate of 60%. Many words have been transferred from Kurdish to Persian in the last 150 years, when Persia became Iranian. Also, of course, they are both Iranian languages.

[@sirrykr1679]

@@evdalzarrinolbistan Thank you for answering my question. Iranian history and culture as well as the language fascinate me. Regards from Iceland.

[@kurdekibedin1347]

​@@sirrykr1679​​He has no idea what he's talking about. The lexical similarity between Kurdish and Persian is about 50%. That's very low. Almost all the other two related languages are related more to each other. For example: English and German, Polish and Russian, Russian and Ukrainian, Ukrainian and Polish, Swedish and German, French and Italian, even Aramaic and Arabic. I speak Northern Kurdish as my mother tongue. I've never actively studied Persian, but I've been watching Persian content on and off for several years. I understand at most 10% The time of separation from Kurdish and Persian is probably about 3000 years in the past

[@sinan6713]

Kürtçeyi bi adam akıllı öğrenemedim.

[@kurdish_scraps0147]

Mn tinagam mn sorani ma😂😂😂

[@7mad211]

erê ez jî soranî diaxavim û ez ji wî têdigim ji sedî 80%

[@kurdish_scraps0147]

@@7mad211 baba amn tenagam la badini

[@7mad211]

@@kurdish_scraps0147 ئەرێ وەڵا منیش بە سۆرانی قسە ئەکەم و من لە ئەو تێدەگەم لە سەدا 80%

[@kurdish_scraps0147]

@@7mad211 bale bale mnesh kom fir akam karmanji inshalah.

[@lolwat5418]

I speak Kurdish Feyli and I understood like 5%

[@huseyinali2001]

Hello is lurish and feily kurdish are the same

[@cudicudi8549]

Hi, why not making a video on Feyli and sending it to wikitounge?

[@lolwat5418]

Cûdî Cûdî maybe I will

[@bersoski]

İ thing you dont want to understand how its possible? feyli kurd understand %5 ? I speak Kurmanci I understand feyli/kelhuri % 60,70

[@lolwat5418]

marinheiroo maybe because I’m not born in the Middle East. I am born Europe and I haven’t been exposed to the Kurmanji dialect that often.