Why does Kurdish use the Latin alphabet?

Kurdish Latin alphabet Celadet Bedirxan aimed to create an alphabet that didn’t use two letters for representing one sound. As the Kurds in Turkey already learned the Turkish Latin alphabet, he created an alphabet which would specifically be accessible for the Kurds in Turkey.

Is Kurdish and Arabic the same language?

Kurds, or Kurdish people, speak the Kurdish language; Arabs or Arabic people speak Arabic. 2. Kurds are natives of the Middle East. They inhabit the Kurdistan region which includes parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria; Arabs mainly live in the Arab world which includes Western Asia and North Africa.

What language do Kurdistan speak?

Kurdish
ArabicSoranî dialect
Kurdistan Region/Official languages

What is the difference between Kurdish and Persian?

The Kurds are mostly ethnic people and do not have any independent religion of their own. The Kurds speak in Kurdish while Persians speak Farsi, the dominant language in Iran. Both the Kurdish and Persian languages are part of the Iranian language, specifically the Western Iranian language.

Why did the alphabet change from Arabic to Turkish?

There are several reasons for the alphabet revolution. First of all, Turkish has 9 vowels. Turkish language has an agglutinative structure and uses derivational and inflectional suffixes while Arabic language mostly consist of triliteral roots.

How to distinguish between Arabic and Kurdish/Persian?

Arabic is very easy to distinguish when written with tashkeel (the phonetic guide). Almost every letter will have a symbol above or below rendering it quite different from Kurdish and Persian.

Is Persian a sister language to Arabic?

Kurdish and Persian are linguistically sister languages and both are in the Iranian branch, much like how English and German can be considered sister languages of the Germanic branch. Since Persian is an Indo-European language, it is not linguistically related to Arabic.

What are some languages that are written in Arabic?

Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, among many others, all use an Arabic-based script. During the Ottoman Empire, Turkish was also written in Arabic up until Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared the change to Latin script in 1928. Many people may not know this, but these languages all belong to different language families.