Establishment

Kurdish Language

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 Academy in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 was established in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 in 2002 when the First Conference on Kurdish Language Teaching was held in 2002. More than 150 Iranian Kurdish writers, academicians, linguists and journalists participated in this conference and a dozen of articles on the different aspects of Kurdish language were presented. The conference, though of no governmental support, was conducted by the Cultural Institute of Kurdistan in Tehran and Peyv Literary Community in Saghez. Based on the article fifteen of the Iranian Constitution, Kurdish language is to be taught in the schools of Iranian Kurdistan

Iranian Kurdistan

Iranian Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of West Azerbaijan province....

. However, it has not so far been managed to teach Kurdish in Iranian Kurdistan. The conference emphasized the necessity of the establishment of an academy for Kurdish language. Hence, based on the votes of the participants of the conference the members of the newly-established Kurdish Language Academy in Iran were elected. The academy includes Fifteen staff members and five associate members.

Objectives

Among the major objectives of the Kurdish Language Academy are the development of Kurdish language, paving the way for Kurdish language teaching in Iran in a formal and academic way, and motivating, as well as sponsoring, various attempts to improve and teach Kurdish language all over Iran.

Zimanewan, the Academy's Journal

Kurdish Language Academy issues a quarterly journal called Zimanewan (The Linguist). It publishes analytical articles on the different aspects of Kurdish language, among which are the following:
major Kurdish dialects including Sorani

Soranî

Soranî is the name of a Kurdish language that is spoken in Iran and Iraq. Soranî is one of the main Kurdish languages, which are a branch of the Iranian languages.- Name :...

, Kurmanji

Kurmanji

Kurmanji or Northern Kurdish is the most commonly spoken dialect of the Kurdish language.- Scripts and books :...

, Gorani

Gorani

Gorani may refer to:In culture:* Gorani people, a Balkan ethnic groupIn geography:* Gorani, a village in Uda Commune, Argeş County, Romania* Gorani, a village in Odăile Commune, Buzău County, Romania...

 and Zazai,
all kurdish sub-dialects and accents such as Erdelani, Mokriyani, Shikaki and Kelhuri,
the grammar of all Kurdish dialects and sub-dialects,
the process of word and term coinges in Kuridsh language,
language and identity,
language and culture,
philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

,
phonetics

Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...

 and
critique of the non-scientific and immature works on Kurdish language.

Members

The list of the Members according to the votes of the elections:
1. Ata Nahai

Ata Nahai

Ata Nahai is a well-known Kurdish Iranian novelist and short story writer. He was born in Baneh in 1960. He was graduated from high school in 1978, receiving a diploma of literature. As to the revolutionary atmosphere of Iran in 1979 and the universities being closed for the coming four years he...

2. Ahmad Ghazi

Ahmad Ghazi

Ahmad Ghazi is a famous Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in 1936 in Mahabad. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in Tehran Higher Institute of Languages in 1958. He played an active role in Iranian Kurdistan struggles for political sovereignty in the 1970s, because of which...

3. Dr. Ali Rokhzadi
4. Dr. Aziz Jiyan
5. Kalimollah Tavahodi
6. Dr. Bakhtiar Sajjadi

Bakhtiar Sajjadi

Bakhtiar Sadjadi is a Kurdish academician, writer and translator.He got his BA degree in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran in 1998 and his MA in the same field from Tehran University in 2000...

7. Abdulkhaleq Yaghubi
8. Dr. Jalal Jalalizade
9. Kamran Rahim
10. Farugh Keikhosravi
11. Yusof Rasulabadi
12. Reza Shajei
13. Rashid Kermanj
13. Ahmad Bahri
14. Naser Vahid
15. Mansour Teifuri

External links

The website of the Kurdish Language Academy in Iran