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.

For the corpus assembly lab, a repository of plain text files has been created using excerpts from some of the resources listed below.

External Resources

Computational Resources

• Keyboard Layout (seems to be quite common)

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

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

does this mean that it came with your OS or that it's a custom one you (or someone else?) created? -Jonathan

• Rule-based Kurdish Text Transliteration System: Latin-Arabic orthography conversion

• Kurdish Speech to Text: early attempt to develop speech recognition for Sorani Kurdish

• Towards Machine Translation for the Kurdish Language: Sorani machine translation model

Dictionaries

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

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

• Dictionary of Scientific Terms: includes Sorani definitions of terms like "atom"

• Diccionaire Fondamental Kurde-Français-Sorani: French-Sorani dict with phrases & alphabet

Grammatical Descriptions

• Sorani Grammar: high-level description of important grammatical properties of Sorani

• Kurdish Basic Course: has helpful chapters on grammar and word lists

• A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings: extensive descriptions of Sorani grammar

Scientific Works

• Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-Checker for Sorani Kurdish: includes background on Sorani morphology

• Kurdish Romanization Table: potentially useful information on Sorani alphabet and orthography

• Kurdish Interdialect Machine Translation: suggests a method for Kurmanji-Sorani machine translation

• Building a Test Collection for Sorani Kurdish: outlines a Test Collection project + list of affixes

Corpora

• OLAC Resources (how do I access these?)

Try clicking the links on that page and then looking for "Identifier (URI)" - Daniel

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

• Sorani Bible: one of a few different versions of the Bible

• 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: Awene, KNN, NRT, Rudaw, Xendan: aggregation of sites with ~300 words/article

• Abas Shiwan's blog (with Latin script transliterations)

• Ala Hooshiar's blog

• Amjad Shakely's blog

Developed Resources

• Keyboard (see Wiki page)
• Transducer (see Wiki page)