Qanatê Kurdo

Qanatê Kurdo or Kanat Kalaschewitsch Kurdojew (* 1909 in the Kars region ; † October 31, 1985 in Leningrad ) was a Kurdish author, linguist and academic of the Yazidi faith.

Life

He was born in the village of Sûsiz in what is now the Turkish province of Kars . At that time, Kars was part of the Russian Empire . Due to the turmoil of the First World War, his family fled to Armenia in 1918 and from there to Tbilisi . He attended a Kurdish school in Tbilisi. Many famous Kurdish authors from the Soviet Union such as B. Dr. Çerkez Bakayêv attended this school. In 1928 he went to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg ) to continue his studies. There he attended the Faculty of Language, History and Literature at the Leningrad University . In 1941 he obtained his doctorate there. After the Second World War he began to teach Kurdology and the Kurdish language at the Faculty of "Oriental Studies". In 1959 a chair of Kurdology was founded, the head of which became Kurdo from 1961. He died in Leningrad on October 31, 1985.

Works

Qanatê Kurdo wrote more than 100 monographs , books and articles on the Kurdish language , history and folklore. He also trained more than 20 Kurdologists.

About the Kurdish language

• Grammatika kurdskogo jazyka (kurmandzhi): fonetika, morfologija (The grammar of the Kurdish language: phonetics, morphology), Moscow 1957.
• Kurdsko-Russki Slovar (Kurmanji-Russian Dictionary), Moscow 1960.
• with ZA Yusupova: Kurdsko-Russki Slovar (Sorani) Russkii yazik (Sorani-Russian dictionary), Moscow 1983.
• Grammatika kurdskogo iazyka na materiale dialektov kurmandzhi i sorani Moskva (The comparison of the grammar of the Kurdish dialects Kurmanji and Sorani) 1978.

Literature and folklore

• Tarîxa edebiyata Kurdî (The History of Kurdish Literature), 2 volumes, 1983/1985.
• Duwanzdeh varîant, Mem û Zîn (Twelve Versions of Mem û Zîn ), 1996.

Web links

• Qanatê Kurdo . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)