Central Kurdish

Below is a list of resources relevant to the Sorani Kurdish language. Resources are categorized according to type of content. I own italicized resources in PDF format. I have also flagged resources I have not yet obtained.

Computational Resources

• .txt lists of words, word-level digrams, and character-level trigrams

• Keyboard Layout: seems to be the most common layout

• Latin-based keyboard layout that I own on my computer

Dictionaries

• Sorani Vocabulary: vocab list with Latin script transliterations, by Harvard

• The Kurdish Dictionary: translates to and from any combination of ckb/kur/engl via query

• Diccionaire Fondamental Kurde-Français-Sorani: French-Sorani dictionary with common phrases

Corpora

Books & Encyclopediae

• Sorani Wikipedia: many articles averaging a few paragraphs in length

• Sorani Bible: one of a few different versions

• JW Website: few dozen entries accompanied by voice narration

• Hawler Gov: various entries on the Kurdish capital

• شازاده چکۆله: Sorani version of The Little Prince, by Aso Abdullah

News Sites

This is an aggregation of news sites, all written in Sorani, that contain written media on the order of ~300 words per article, though long-form works of journalism can also be found.

• KNN

• NRT

• Rudaw

• Xendan

• Awene

Blog Pages

Long-form posts that exceed ~1000 words can be found here. Each link goes to a specific person's blog archive, containing anywhere between 10-100 articles.

• Abas Shiwan (with Latin script transliterations)

• Ala Hooshiar

• Amjad Shakely