Abnormal Change in Kurdish and the Impact of Alienation: Pathology of the Spread of Linguistic Errors in Central Kurdish

Abstract

Kurdish, like any other language, needs changed and exchange to survive and develop. However, any change in language is not acceptable and natural. The chaotic writing and speaking of Kurdish in these days, except some cases, result from the negligence of its speakers, especially the literates. Kurdish language errors are caused due to different reasons such as not having a formal and accurate reading/writing form, inability of translators and loan translation, the chaos in media language, etc. This paper dealt with the language errors created in Mukryani accent of the central dialect of the Kurdish language due to diverse reasons like inexperience of translators. This study is qualitative/descriptive research in which examples of different types of language errors as well as strategies to avoid errors in Kurdish speaking and writing. The results of this research revealed that non-professional manipulation in Kurdish language syntax is more harmful than lexical borrowing and destroys the language.

Keywords

• kurdish
• central dialect
• language errors
• translation
• loan translation