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 * Abkhaz recordings: http://georgehewitt.net/multimedia/recordings

Khanna Omarkhali, also Khanna Usoyan (Kurdish: Xana Omerxalî; Russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also: Ханна Рзаевна Усоян; * 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR) is a religion researcher and Orientalist of Kurdish (Yazidi) descent. She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, is considered as an expert in Yezidism and currently works as a scholar at the University of Göttingen, while continuing to hold lectures at the Oriental Studies Department of the Saint Petersburg State University.

She is known as one of the foremost researchers of Yazidism in Russosphere. Her main work is Yazidism - from the Depths of Millennia.

Selected works (English titles)

 * Omarkhali Kh. On the Structure of the Yezidi Clan and Tribal System and its Terminology among the Yezidis of the Caucasus // Journal of Kurdish Studies. — 2008. — Vol.6. — p. 104-119. ISSN 1370-7205
 * Some Reflections on Concepts of Time in Yezidism, 2009 (co-author)
 * Kurdish Reader. Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji: With Kurdish-English Glossaries and Grammatical Sketch Harrassowitz, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 282 pages.
 * Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream - Volume 68 of Studies in Oriental Religions, ISSN 0340-6792, 2014.