Editing Central Kurdish (section)

=== Syllable ===
Central Kurdish allows both complex onsets (e.g. spî: "white", kwêr: "blind") and complex codas (e.g. ferş: "carpet"). However, the two members of the clusters are arranged in such a way that, in all cases, the [[Sonority Sequencing Principle]] (SSP) is preserved.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Zahedi|first1=Muhamad Sediq|last2=Alinezhad|first2=Batool|last3=Rezai|first3=Vali|date=2012-09-26|title=The Sonority Sequencing Principle in Sanandaji/Erdelani Kurdish: An Optimality Theoretical Perspective|journal=International Journal of English Linguistics|language=en|volume=2|issue=5|pages=72|issn=1923-8703|doi=10.5539/ijel.v2n5p72|doi-access=free|s2cid=122240213 }}</ref> In many loanwords, an epenthetic vowel is inserted to resyllabify the word, omitting syllables that have codas that violate SSP. Originally mono-syllabic words such as /hazm/ ("digestion") and /zabt/ ("record") therefore become /hɛ.zɪm/ and /zɛ.bɪt/ respectively.<ref name=":2" />

Primary stress always falls on the last syllable in nouns,<ref name=":3">{{cite thesis|last=Saadi Hamid|first=Twana A.|title=The prosodic phonology of Central Kurdish|date=2015|publisher=Newcastle University|type=Ph.D.}}</ref> but in verbs its position differs depending on tense and aspect. Some have suggested the existence of an alternating pattern of secondary stress in syllables in Central Kurdish words.<ref name=":3" />