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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The allocation of its proper place among Iranian languages to Kurmanji (Kurdish) has been rendered well-nigh impossible up to the present by the lack of material available for examination. The most careful Orientalists tend to consider it a non-Persian language, notably Justi, Darmesteter, and Socin (in the Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie). The first emphatically states that it is in no way a degraded New Persian, and that a description of the peculiarities of Iranian speech would not be exhaustive if the phonetics and etymology of Kurdish be disregarded.
page 191 note 1 Justi, Introduction to Kurdische Grammatik.
page 191 note 2 Darmesteter, , Études Iraniennes, vol. ii, p. 89.Google Scholar