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aw mlala kewa tak sawakana?? benjam shetaka awna guwana

Diri wrote:

aw mlala kewa tak sawakana?? benjam shetaka awna guwana

So... Nobody understands these strange words?

Are you sure it is Kurdish ?

can you write it maybe in a better(latin understandable) form? Which dialect is it?

Sounds like Sorani..

Piling wrote:Are you sure it is Kurdish ?

Yep... It sure is...

Ciwan wrote:can you write it maybe in a better(latin understandable) form? Which dialect is it?

Ciwan... (welcome by the way)

If I knew how to write them, I wouldn't ask you guys to help me... Then I would understand them, most probably...

But since those aren't my words - but the words of a person (girl) on vivaKurdistan - I suspect that they are Soranî... Maybe even Goranî...

Diri wrote:

aw mlala kewa tak sawakana?? benjam shetaka awna guwana

Aw= this/that
Mlala= mindal(?)= child?
Kewa= where
Tak=with?
Sawakana=the dogs?

Benjam="My..."
Shetaka=something
Awna=these
Guwana=?

Diri wrote:

aw mlala kewa tak sawakana?? benjam shetaka awna guwana

You pretty much got it right Diri. This is not Gorani. It's someone who just can't write well in Sorani =P She's probably trying to say Ew mendale kiye le tek segekane? And "guwana" - she probably means "ciwane". (She likes the picture with the kid and the dogs, and wants to know who the kid is )

I bet this person is Eastern Kurd and has lived in Iran, thats how Iranians write persian with latin letters.

she meant ciwan by guwan

Yeah... I think I got it... Finally

Let me ask you something, Heval - do you pronounce Dog: Seg? Do you actually pronounce the "g"?

We say "Se"...

When I saw "Guwan" - all I could think about was "Gû"! HAHAHA!

Diri wrote:Yeah... I think I got it... Finally

Let me ask you something, Heval - do you pronounce Dog: Seg? Do you actually pronounce the "g"?

We say "Se"...

When I saw "Guwan" - all I could think about was "Gû"! HAHAHA!

Haha!

Yeah, we pronounce the g in seg. Se... is that just unique to the Urmiye area or does is that common in Northern Kurdistan too?

in Jazirah-Qamishlo-Bohtan, I believe that ppl say "se". In Western-Western Kurdistan (Efrîn) they say kuçek (from the Turkish köpek ?).

Seg is a common Iranian term in fact. Even in Northern India they tell it, for in Kipling's novel, Mowgli, they use the term against wild dogs, as an insult : "sag".