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    Associated Press
    April 2 2004

    Some Facts and Figures on Kurds

    PEOPLE - An estimated 20 million to 25 million Kurds live mostly in
    four countries - Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The largest community,
    with about 12 million people, is in Turkey.

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    HISTORY - Kurds trace their history to ancient Mesopotamia. They were
    a significant power in the early Middle Ages and after World War I
    were promised an independent homeland. Recent decades have seen
    Kurdish rebellions in Iran, Iraq and Turkey.

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    LANGUAGE - Kurdish is an Indo-European language like English and is
    closely related to Iran's Farsi. The various Kurdish dialects are to
    a large extent mutually incomprehensible. The dialects include:
    Kurmanji, or northern Kurdish, the largest spoken dialect, which is
    spoken in southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria as well as parts
    of Armenia and Georgia; Sorani, or central Kurdish, which is spoken
    mainly in parts of northern Iraq and western Iran; and Zaza, which is
    spoken in eastern Turkey.

    Kurdish dialects have borrowed heavily from other languages,
    including Persian, Arabic and Turkish, but they are grammatically
    distinct.

    Submitted by Janoyan Ana
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