Editing Central Kurdish (section)

=== 1960s–1980s ===

;Iraq

The Kurdish Scientific Academy was established in [[Baghdad]] in 1968 which devoted a significant part of their job to develop [[neologism]]s, grammar books, writing style guide-lines, a modified orthography and research in linguistics subjects. The [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]] and its media also used Central Kurdish as their official language despite its leader [[Mustafa Barzani|Mustefa Barzanî]] being a Kurmanji-speaker. Despite the deterioration of relations between the Kurds and Iraq in the 1970s, the state still sponsored the implementation of Central Kurdish as language in secondary schools. However, this ended by 1978 when the Iraqi authorities embarked on an Arabization to quell Kurdish nationalism.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=648}} On this, Hassanpour wrote in 1992 that:{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=649}}

{{Blockquote|text=Language-related aspects of Arabization include, among other things, the Arabization of Kurdish schools in the Autonomous region; the dissolution of the Kurdish Academy in 1978 and the formation of a 'Kurdish corporation' within the Iraqi Scientific Academy (the policy was to replace 'Kurdish' by 'Iraqi' in the name of organizations, institutions and unions); the removal of Sulaymanya University from Sulaymaniya, main center of Kurdish nationalism, to Arbil and partial Arabization of its faculty and curriculum; and the Arabization of Kurdish geographical names.}} Central Kurdish continued as the main language in elementary and secondary schools in Iraqi Kurdistan.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=649}} In the 1980s, the state sponsored publications in Central Kurdish despite warring with the Kurds.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=651}}

;Iran

In the 1960s, schooling in Kurdish or teaching Kurdish was unthinkable, even in private. However, the University of Tehran began offering two courses in Kurdish even though one had to refrain from discussing Kurdish and had to call it a 'dialect'. The policy of the Pahlavi state in regard to Kurdish was like that of [[safety valve]] where rights were restricted when the state felt threatened.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|pp=648-649}} After the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979, the new Iranian constitution was ambiguous towards Kurdish but the new regime discouraged the use of Central Kurdish both in private and in public. Limited media in Central Kurdish was allowed in the subsequent years.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=650}} The policy of safety valve continued throughout the 1980s.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=652}}