Editing Central Kurdish (section)

=== 2000s–2010s ===
[[World Wide Web]] has had a significant impact on Central Kurdish as thousands of Central Kurdish-speakers have gotten free access to literature. It also became easier to listen to radio and watch television. The Internet moreover fostered the use of Central Kurdish in Iran and the diaspora, where the language had no official status.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=654}}

[[Orthography]] remains a challenge for Central Kurdish. In Iraq, Central Kurdish orthography is moving towards being based on a single [[morpheme]] while Sorani-speakers in Iran make longer words. An example is the word ''to review'' which can be spelled both ''pêdaçûnewe and'' ''pê da çûnewe.''{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|pp=654-656}}

Arabic and Persian words continue to be purged from written Central Kurdish and are getting replaced by neologisms. Conversely, Central Kurdish is borrowing words from the [[English language]].{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=657}}

;Iraq

After the fall of [[Saddam Hussein]] in 2003, Iraq declared Kurdish as the official language of the country beside Arabic. The first section of Article 4 secures this. In 2006, [[Duhok Governorate|Duhok]] began using Kurmanji as their official language as a way of resisting Central Kurdish. Fearing the loss of hegemony, 53 academics, writers and poets pushed the Kurdish Parliament to declare Central Kurdish as the official language of the autonomous region. This attempt failed multiple times and Kurmanji remains the official Kurdish language in Duhok. In the 2010s, criticism arose due to the quality of the Sorani school textbooks, media texts and [[signage]]. In 2011, two journalism professors from [[Salahaddin University-Erbil|Salahaddin University]] criticized the state of Central Kurdish in Kurdistan Region which could affect its use among the people. They also expressed dismay over the method of the Parliament in using the language, since the institution wrote their bills and laws in Arabic and then translated to Central Kurdish.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|pp=654-656}}

;Iran

More flexibility was shown to Kurdish in the mid-2000s by the [[Iranian reformists|reformists]], likely to win the Kurdish vote. Kurds used the opportunity and began publishing more in Central Kurdish, set up private language learning courses and also advocated for the implementation of Article 15 of the Constitution which would allow the use of regional languages. The use of Central Kurdish in Iran has since then been revitalized by Kurdish book publishers like ''Mang''. Nonetheless, the use of Central Kurdish in the public school system is not supported by Iranian nationalists and [[Iranian principlists|conservatives]] who believe it could damage the unity of the nation-state.{{Sfnp|Sheyholislami|2021|p=657}}