Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison
Authors
ACL 2013, Short Papers
pp. 300-305
January 1, 2013
Abstract
An empirical comparison of Sorani and Kurmanji based on the Pewan news corpus, examining linguistic, lexical and orthographic characteristics across the two Kurdish varieties.
Keywords
Kurdish
Sorani
Kurmanji
Corpus Linguistics
Pewan
Related Datasets
Pewan Corpus and Retrieval Test Collection
2013
Sorani: 115,340 documents / 18,110,723 words; Kurmanji: 25,572 documents / 4,120,027 words
Text
A comparable Sorani and Kurmanji news corpus collected from material published between 2003 and 2012, accompanied by information-retrieval resources.
Citation
Sheykh Esmaili, K., & Salavati, S. (2013). Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison. ACL 2013, Short Papers, 300-305.