Samples of Kurdish speech

© 2016
Data cited from this resource are to be credited to:
Matras, Yaron et al. 2016. The Dialects of Kurdish. Web resource. http://kurdish.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/

Welcome to our archive of Kurdish speech samples!  The samples of spoken Kurdish are taken from recorded interviews with speakers from identified locations across Kurdistan. The recordings are a few minutes long and are accompanied by a transcription in Kurdish and an English translation.

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Locations of samples

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