Qanate Kurdo


Qanate Kurdo or Kanat Kalashevich Kurdoev,, was a Yazidi Kurdish writer, linguist and academic. He was born in the village of Sûsiz near Kars in present-day north-eastern Turkey.

Biography

Kurdo was born into a Yezidi family.. He attended a Kurdish school in Tbilisi. Many other Kurdish writers in the former Soviet Union were also educated in that school. In 1928, he went to Saint Petersburg to continue his studies, where he attended the Language, history and literature department of University of Leningrad. He received his PhD in 1941. When World War II was reaching its end, Kurdo became part of the "Faculty of Oriental Studies in Leningrad where he taught Kurdish in the Department of Iranian Studies". In 1961, he became the head of the new Kurdology section of the faculty, "which Joseph Orbeli had established in 1959". Especially important parts of Kurdo's legacy are the Kurdish -Russian dictionary and the Kurdish -Russian dictionary, that he compiled together with Z.A. Yusupova.
In 1972 a large collection of Kurdish folklore, prepared by Qanate Kurdo was published in Bagdad.
Kurdo died in Leningrad on October 31, 1985.

Works

Qanate Kurdo wrote more than 100 monographs, books and articles on the Kurdish language, history and folklore. He also supervised more than 20 other Kurdologists.

Books on Kurdish language

  1. Kurdoev, K. K., Grammatika kurdskogo jazyka : fonetika, morfologija, Moscow, 1957
  2. Kurdoev, K. K., Kurdsko-Russki Slovar, 890 p., Moscow, 1960.
  3. Kurdoev, K. K., Ḥālatakānī jins u bīnāy barkār la zāzādā: On gender and number in the Zaza dialect of Kurdish, Translated by Azīz Ibrāhīm, Chāpkhānay Kōrī Zānyārī Kurd, Baghdad 1977, 32 p.
  4. Kurdoev, K. K., Grammatika kurdskogo iazyka na materiale dialektov kurmandzhi i sorani Moskva, 293 p., 1978.
  5. Kurdoev, K. K. and Yusupova, Z.A., Kurdsko-Russki Slovar Russkii yazik, 752 p., Moscow, 1983.

    Literature and Folklore

  6. Tarîxa Edebiyata Kurdî, cilda 1, two volumes,1983/1985.
  7. Duwanzdeh varîant, Mem û Zîn, 1996.