How hard is it to learn Kurdish?

Learning Kurdish can be hard in terms of grammar and learning resources, especially if you don’t speak any middle-eastern language. The Kurmanji dialect can be easier for speakers of European languages because it uses the Latin alphabet, while the Surani dialect uses the Arabic script.

Where do Kurds live in USA?

This is the largest population of Kurds in the United States. There are also sizable populations in Dallas, Texas, Atlanta, Georgia, areas of Southern California such as San Diego, Binghamton, New York, and Waterbury, Connecticut. Most have roots in northern Iraq or northwestern Iran.

Can the Kurds establish an independent state?

The Kurdish leadership knows that the establishment of a sustainable independent Kurdish state depends first of all on the consent of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, more than on that of the United States. Any of those countries could easily strangle an incipient Kurdish state economically.

Why are Iraq’s neighbors afraid of the Kurds?

Iraq’s powerful neighbors fear separatist contagion for their own Kurdish populations. Turkey is home to the largest Kurdish minority. It has been fighting Kurdish insurrection in its southeast since 1984. Iran’s Kurds are close culturally to Iraq’s Kurds and they speak the same Kurdish language.

What happened to the Kurds?

This is only the latest reversal for the Kurds, a group of around 40 million who identify with a regional homeland and common historical background, but are now divided between four countries. Despite their many attempts, there’ve never won and kept a Kurdish nation. A 1992 map of Kurdish inhabited areas, made by the CIA.

Why did the Kurds not want Anatolia to become a Kurdistan?

Planned for eastern Anatolia, or Asia Minor, squeezed into borders to which the Kurds objected as too little, this Kurdistan came to naught. The new, revolutionary nationalists in Turkey wanted their own race-nation of Turks. And they did not want Anatolia chopped up for the sake of Kurds or Armenians.