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    Of course kurdish is white language, but influenced by swarthy and yellow languages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uzarel View Post
    This is only true for Sorani speakers in Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurmanji speakers in Syrian Kurdistan, particularly in the major urban centers. The following clip is from a film featuring northern Kurmanji speakers and I barely detect Semitic or Arabic influences.



    In Iraqi Kurdistan, children stopped learning Arabic in school after 1991. The amount of people who understand Arabic is declining and so will its influence on the Kurdish language.
    it's pretty normal that Kurdish sounds like Persian actually, Persian is also in that family language and Kurdish is like half Persian half another language (not only about dialect, also grammar, words etc)

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    languages dont have race lol, from what i have read Kurdish is most similar to balochi and very distinct from Arabic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lameduck View Post
    languages dont have race lol, from what i have read Kurdish is most similar to balochi and very distinct from Arabic.
    It's normal it sounds Balochi and most similar to it.



    It has strong Arabic vocabulary inside İ guess but still Indo-Iranian in basis and structure. Not Semite or smth else.

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    Kurdish sounds Portuguese, even they look similar to each others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wadaad View Post
    To my ears it sounds Persianate, but with alot of semitic glottal stops and rough KH sounds from Arabic that Persian lacks.

    But overall, it sounds Indo-European indeed, especially contrasted next to the very ALIEN language of Turkish, which is easily much stranger to the common ear. More melodious than Kurdish ofcourse, but sounding strange to the MENA region and to the Balkans. I keep hearing “jackson…chukujulorum bla bla” I don’t know why I keep hearing the word jackson in Turkish all the time, “darajackson”, “karajackson”, I kept hearing this all the time.

    Another one is constant repeating of the sound “U” with the dots on top and the “I’ without the dot. The whole language is full of those sounds. It feels like everything ends in “u”, there are no hard consonants at the end of the words. The Rs are very very soft for an English speaker, really hard to pronounce.

    Another repeating word is “sonra”, constantly sonra sonra sonra. If I had to summarize Turkish, it would be language of “darajackson+oyurum+sonra”, these are the sounds constantly repeating in the language.
    I studied on some older Iranian languages, kh sounds were still present there, but probably increased once it came under influence from other languages. Just ignore the old retarded autist, he is most likely brain damaged or something.

    Also I cannot tell if Gültekin is joking or a legit retard, probably legit retarded because never have I stated that Kurdish is a White language

    The worst part is that Turks want to be so "European" yet their culture and language is so far away which is quite hilarious, putting on top the "muh Ottoman Empire".


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    Kurdish language is Indo-European language, similar to Persian, but with influence of a lot of Asian languages.

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    It's sounds Persian with it's own unique twist. Kinda sounds Baloch but without the Indo-Aryan influence for me. Well, 7abibi, Turkish and Kurdish are not White languages, and Turkish sounds very out of place in the middle east than both Semitic and Iranic put together. Afro-Asiatic and Indo-European languages are native to the middle east.

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    It's indo-European and it does share some some similarities, but other than that, it's not "European". I do know some non-Euro indo-European words that is similar to European languages. Like Dushman (enemy), chair (tea) etc. IDK what you'd mean by a "white language" and if Slavic languages were only spoken in the middle east it would be non-white no matter what.

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    It sounds Arabic Persian mix.

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