The prominent linguist Ph. Kreyenbroek (1994) emphasized that the Kurdish language is only similar to Persian, as part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, but differs from Arabic and Turkish languages, just like English differs from French.
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.
Makarenka pointed out there are many mutual similarities between the two peoples, such as in their folklore, histories, and languages and claims there are more than two thousand related words between Russian and Kurdish.
Both of them share highly similar origins with regard to social relationships and linguistic affinities. Basically both languages were utilized by Aryan community and they are categorized as Iranian and Zagros family languages. Kurdish and Farsi languages were spoken by both Aryan race people as their homelands.
The majority of people who identify as Kurds speak Kurmanji, meanwhile a minority of them speak Turkish or Zazaki as their mother language.
No, the Kurds are not Persian. They are a separate ethnic group. However, their language is an Indo-European language that is related to the Farsi language spoken by Persians.
On the other hand, Kurdish is a Northwestern Iranian language like Balochi, Mazandarani and Gilaki. No. As a native Persian/Farsi speaker, I cannot understand Kurdish. I can pick out some words or phrases due to common lexicon but the grammar, phonology, and morphology is very different.
Farsi and Dari are two dialects of the same language, mutually intelligible in written format, but very different when spoken. Make sure you know if your audience speaks Farsi, Dari, or Tajik. Pashto is a different language than Dari and Farsi.
Kurdish language is male dominated, biased and sexist – all of which is reflected in Kurdish patriarchy. Kurdish patriarchy (and all the norms association with it) typically relegates women to subordinate power positions.
Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Nearly all Iraqi Kurds consider themselves Sunni Muslims. In our survey, 98% of Kurds in Iraq identified themselves as Sunnis and only 2% identified as Shias. (A small minority of Iraqi Kurds, including Yazidis, are not Muslims.)
The Kurdish people are believed to be of heterogeneous origins combining a number of earlier tribal or ethnic groups including Lullubi, Guti, Cyrtians, Carduchi. Some of them have also absorbed some elements from Semitic, and Armenian people.
Kurdistan is home to many religions, the largest of which is Islam. The majority of Kurdish Muslims across Turkish, Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan are Sunni Muslims, while the Kurds who practice Shiite Islam are prevalent mainly in Iran.
Although Kurds share the same ethnic identity, the languages they speak, though closely related, are not mutually intelligible.
Religion. The two major religions among Kurds in Iran are Islam and Yarsanism, while fewer Kurds adhere to Baháʼí Faith and Judaism.
Learning Kurdish can be hard in terms of grammar and learning resources, especially if you don't speak any middle-eastern language. The Kurmanji dialect can be easier for speakers of European languages because it uses the Latin alphabet, while the Sorani dialect uses the Arabic script.
Kurdish is an Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo- European languages with multiple dialects spoken by Kurdish peoples in the mountainous regions of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
Both ethnic groups have their own distinct languages. Arabs have the Arabic language, together with a numerical system. Kurds, meanwhile, speak Kurdish. Kurds are often the minority ethnic group in any country they find settlement (aside from Kurdistan) while Arabs tend to be the major ethnic group in the same area.
Where do they come from? The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what are now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.
The majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims.
“Babo” derives from the Turkish word “baba” (father) and is mostly used in Kurdish populated of areas in Turkey, German news website local.de reported.
مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ • (mā šāʔa llāhu) mashallah: Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence.