Why Don't Kurds Speak Arabic? 🗺️

30–45 million Kurds live where Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria meet, but Kurdish is an Iranian language, closer to Persian than to Arabic or Turkish.
It comes in two main forms: Kurmanji and Sorani.
One language or two? Kurds: which do YOU speak? Tell me below.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds · https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kurdish-language · https://globalvoices.org/2023/09/06/how-kurdish-language-divisions-hinder-access-to-information/

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