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Les Dialectes d’Awromān et de Pāwä: Textes recueillis par Åge Meyer Benedictsen
The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran
The Gorani language of Gawrajū, a village of West Iran
A grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī
This study is a detailed grammatical description of the Gūrānī language as used in the village of Gawrajū, located near the town of Gahvāre in the province of Kermānšāh, Iran. Gūrānī is genetically classified as a North-West Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Gūrānī is of particular historical significance especially as it was the language of the court of the Kurdish Ardalān principality (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries). This grammatical description of Gawrajū Gūrānī (‘Gawrajūyī’) is based on spoken material from a corpus of twelve texts. The study is written from primarily a functional-typological theoretical framework. It presents the main structures and word classes, as well as a selection of functional systems and the use of certain structures. One chapter focuses on issues of Information Structure. There are also observations about linguistic variation within Gūrānī.
Kurmancca ile karşılaştırmalı kırmancca (zazaca) dilbilgisi
Grammatica e vocabolario della lingua kurda
The earliest scientific European studies on the Kurdish language and civilization, which date back to the late 18th century, were carried out by missionaries (first by Italian Catholics and later by Anglo-Saxon Protestants). The pioneer of European Kurdish studies was Maurizio Garzoni (1734-1804), a member of the Order of Black Friars, who reached the region of Mosul (Mowsel) in 1762. Two years later he settled in ʿAmādiya, the capital of the principality of Bahdinān, to the northeast of Mosul. There he collected materials for his Grammatica e vocabolario della lingua Kurda, which was published in Rome in 1787. The first of its kind, it remained an important source of information on the Kurdish language until the end of the 19th century.