Criticism of Some Linguistic Researches of the Last Half Century About the Kurdish Language with an Emphasis on Gurani/Horami

Abstract

During the past century, some western linguists such as Mackenzie spoke the language of parts of the people of Kurdistan such as Kandoleh in the northwest of Kermanshah, Bajlani around Sarpol-Zhab, Macho in Qasr-Shirin and Garmian, Shebak, Sarli and Bajoran dialects in Mosul, Zaza in some The southeastern provinces of Turkey and Horamani in the provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan were introduced as Gurani and independent from the Kurdish language. In this research, by reviewing some Western and Persian researches related to interpretation in Horami, it has been shown that the language of the Horami people is not much different from other Kurdish branches, and there are few believers in Mackenzie's theory among Kurdish linguists, and most of them consider Gorani/Horami to be partial. They know from the family of Kurdish languages.