Author: Diri » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:44 pm
Alo aloooo...
Salut @ Marie
Kurds are very proud to be a mixed people of mixed heritage and culture... While we have cultural pluralism from within - peoples like the Persians try very hard to borrow from other peoples to enrichen their own culture... We don't need that - our own culture is so rich and multi-coloured, we need not look elsewhere for influence and inspiration...
We have Hewraman, Bakran, Serhed, Mîlan, Mûkriyan, Germiyan, Zazana, Kirmaşan, Îlam and many other sides of our wonderful and beautiful geography and culture...
The ancient Kurds were of Hurrian culture - whom spoke a language in direct relation with todays Georgian... Kurdish culture is also a continuation of Hurrian culture - but when the Aryan tribes came to Kurdistan (the Medes) the Hurrians were assimilated - and their language was replaced by Median - which later evovled into todays dialects of Kurdish: Kurmancî, Soranî, Zazakî & Goranî... Earlier, even the Lors and Bextiyarî were in whole Kurds - but gradually, because of geography and cultural isolation, they developed so far from the rest of the Kurdish groups - and thus grew apart...
But even today you will find traces of Kurdish culture along the WHOLE Zagros mountain range... Remnants of a once great Kurdish culture... Destroyed mostly by the Arab invasion in 650-900...
Kurds are the result of many thousands of years of layers from different cultures and peoples... We are very proud of our diversity and pluralism - it's a great strenght in todays world...
God bless Kurdistan - the land of the thousand voices...

