Editing Kurdish language (section)

==History==
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During his stay in [[Damascus]], historian [[Ibn Wahshiyya]] came across two books on agriculture written in Kurdish, one on the culture of the vine and the palm tree, and the other on water and the means of finding it out in unknown ground. He translated both from Kurdish into Arabic in the early 9th century AD.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ibn-Waḥšīya |first=Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAlī |translator=Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall|title=Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained: With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GZEAAAAcAAJ |access-date=28 March 2013 |year= 1806|publisher=Bulmer |page=53 }}</ref>

Among the earliest Kurdish religious texts is the ''[[Yazidi Black Book]]'', the sacred book of [[Yazidi]] faith. It is considered to have been authored sometime in the 13th century AD by ''Hassan bin Adi'' (b. 1195 AD), the great-grandnephew of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (d. 1162), the founder of the faith. It contains the Yazidi account of the creation of the world, the origin of man, the story of [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] and the major prohibitions of the faith.<ref>John S. Guest, ''The Yezidis: A Study in Survival'', Routledge Publishers, 1987, {{ISBN|0-7103-0115-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7103-0115-4}}, 299 pp. (see pages 18, 19, 32)</ref> According to ''The Cambridge History of the Kurds'', "the first proper 'text{{'"}} written in Kurdish is a short Christian prayer. It was written in Armenian characters, and dates from the fifteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge History of the Kurds |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-108-47335-4 |pages=613 |editor-last=Bozarslan |editor-first=Hamit |editor-last2=Gunes |editor-first2=Cengiz |editor-last3=Yadirgi |editor-first3=Veli}}</ref> From the 15th to 17th centuries, classical Kurdish poets and writers developed a literary language. The most notable classical Kurdish poets from this period were [[Ali Hariri]], [[Ahmad Khani]], [[Malaye Jaziri]] and [[Faqi Tayran]].

The [[Italian people|Italian]] priest Maurizio Garzoni published the first Kurdish grammar titled ''Grammatica e Vocabolario della Lingua Kurda'' in [[Rome]] in 1787 after eighteen years of missionary work among the Kurds of [[Amadiya]].<ref>Ernest R. McCarus, ''Kurdish Language Studies'', The Middle East Journal, Published by Middle East Institute, Washington, 1960, p.325</ref> This work is very important in Kurdish history as it is the first acknowledgment of the widespread use of a distinctive Kurdish language. Garzoni was given the title ''Father of Kurdology'' by later scholars.<ref>[http://www.institutkurde.org/en/conferences/kurdish_studies_irbil_2006/Mirella+GALETTI.html#_ftn5 Kurdistan and Its Christians] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210082050/http://www.institutkurde.org/en/conferences/kurdish_studies_irbil_2006/Mirella+GALETTI.html |date=10 February 2009 }}, Mirella Galetti, World Congress of Kurdish Studies, 6–9 September 2006</ref> The Kurdish language was banned in a large portion of Kurdistan for some time. After the [[1980 Turkish coup d'état]] until 1991 the use of the Kurdish language was illegal in Turkey.<ref>Ross, Michael. ''The Volunteer'' (chapter: The Road to Ankara)</ref>