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'Swadesh list for Kurdish'

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'''This is Swadesh list of 207 words in English and Kurdish. '''

The Swadesh list, developed by the linguist Swadesh, is used as a tool to study the evolution of languages. It contains a set of basic words which can be found in every language to varying degrees. Various versions have been created, in particular:

● a complete 207 words version, in which some of the words are not found in every environment (it contains for instance snake and snow).

● a reduced 100 words version.

Some versions are more reliable than others in terms of the universality of concurrence between the words' meanings.

This word list should not be considered as an elementary lexicon to communicate with speakers of a given language; for such a purpose, the numerous existing Wikitravel lexicons are more useful. Its only objective is to give a rough idea of the language, by showing its lexical and, when possible, phonetic basis. It considers one of the lists of vocabulary with universal test meanings/concepts developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1950-70s. Because translations of the Swadesh list into a set of languages allow researchers to quantify the interrelatedness of those languages.

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Remark:

When the words have various forms (verbs conjugation, transitive and intransitive), the orthography is the following: ● verbs : infinitive before conjugation, and even auxiliary verbs too.

● this Swadesh list is more based on Kurmanji which known as north Kurdish.

● the letter ( k ) represents separate auxiliary verb (kerden/kirin) before conjugation, as (deh) for (dan), and (beh) for (bûn).

● almost all Kurdish sound of vowel / ɪ / in western accents turns to vowel sound / e / in eastern accents.

Rênas Îbranûm Dêyako (talk) 22:15, 1 February 2022 (UTC)