Dictionary Victory For Kurds

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Date posted:  1 May 2019
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Dictionary Victory For Kurds

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The Kurdish ‘Wiki’ dictionary has grown to an astonishing 650,000 pages by using the same software that made Wikipedia so comprehensive, it was reported in April.

It translates dozens of languages to and from Kurdish, which all suits the Kurds who interact with so many different languages across Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, and now Western nations too.

Started by Kurdish pioneers, ku.wiktionary. org is a secular dictionary, but Christians came on board with a passion to make ‘the most important words in the world understandable’.

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