Kurdish (Southern)

Kurdish is a language without a nation. Kurdistan spans parts of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria. Kurds are proud of their culture and language, and would very much like to have their own state. One has been promised to them multiple times, and each time those promises were broken.

Most Kurds are Sunni Muslim.

Word Order: Kurdish, spoken in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria, typically follows a subject-object-verb (SOV) structure.

Writing: Kurdish is written in several scripts depending on the region, including the Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets.

Sounds: Kurdish has a wide array of consonants and vowels, but it lacks certain English sounds, such as "th" and "v," which can be challenging for Kurdish speakers when learning English.

Dialects: There are several dialects of Kurdish, and many Kurds are multilingual, also speaking the language of the nation in which they reside (Turkish, Arabic, etc.)