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TheKurdish Institute of Paris (French:Institut kurde de Paris;Kurdish:ئینستیتیوتی کوردیی پاریس), founded in February 1983 by (amongst others) film producerYılmaz Güney and poetCigerxwîn, is an organisation focused on theKurdish language,culture, andhistory.[1] It is one of the principal academic centers of the Kurdish language in Europe. Its main publications include the linguistic journalKurmancî, a monthly press review about Kurdish issues titledBulletin de liaison et d'information (Bulletin of Contact and Information), andÉtudes Kurdes, a research journal in French.
Most of the institute's activities are focused on theKurmanji dialect of Kurdish. The institute has a library preserving thousands of historical documents, pamphlets and periodicals aboutKurds. Two representatives from the French Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Culture provide the link between the institute and thegovernment of France. The institute is headed byKendal Nezan as president, withAbbas Vali (Swansea University) and Fuad Hussein (University of Amsterdam) as vice presidents.
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| Editor-in-chief | Reşo Zîlan |
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| Categories | Linguistics |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Circulation | 10,000 |
| Publisher | Kurdish Institute of Paris |
| First issue | 1 September 1987 |
| Country | France |
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| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0761-1242 |
Kurmancî is a linguistic magazine published twice a year since 1987 to spread the results of the Kurdish Institute's linguistic seminars on problems of terminology and standardisation of the Kurdish language. All issues of this periodical are available on the publisher's website, as is the Kurdish–French–English–Turkish index of the first twenty issues. The nameKurmancî is a Kurdish spelling of the name of the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, Kurmanji.
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