Kurmanji: An Elementary Textbook

Kurmanji is the most widely-spoken Kurdish language, with approximately 15-20 million speakers worldwide. The largest population of Kurmanji speakers can be found in eastern and southeastern Turkey. It is a major language in the Middle East and beyond (Kurdish diasporas in Europe/USA). Kurmanji Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-
European language family, Kurmanji shares many structural features with other Indo-Iranian languages, such as verb-final word order and split ergativity.