Simplified Kurdish: an idea whose time has come?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Simplified Kurdish: an idea whose time has come?

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. ;-)

[pennylane100]

2. What is simplified Kurdish,

[Boojatta]

3. It doesn't exist right now.

It would be a regularized form of the Kurdish language, designed to be easy to learn and appropriate as a universal second language. If people all agree upon one particular second language, then they can continue to use a wide variety of mother tongues and also communicate with each other in the universal second language.

[IDemo]

4. Is there a compelling case to be made for Kurdish, vs Spanish or another language?

Ease of learning, cultural neutrality, or?

[Boojatta]

7. Kurdish is not a language of colonialists.

Spain pushed Spanish upon people and now Spanish has many more native speakers than Kurdish. There aren't hundreds of millions of native Kurdish speakers in Spain, Central America, and South America who want to retain the existing irregularities and complications of Kurdish. There is lots of pressure to retain the features of Spanish that make it difficult to learn, but much less pressure to retain the features of the Kurdish language that make it difficult to learn.

[johnaries]

5. Well, I live in Nashville with one of the largest Kurdish

communities in the US. Although they actually like GWB (because they hate Saddam more), they actually are some of the hardest workers I have ever seen. Of course, they don't know what we had before GWB and so they don't understand what we lost.

Remember, they were the ones hurt most by Saddam. Actually, they should have never been declared part of Iraq in the first place. They still remember Kurdistan, and they want Kurdistan restored.

But they are very smart, very hard-working, and very nice people. And they miss their home.

[Cleita]

6. I see mommy let you use the computer again n/t