Qanate Kurdo or Kanat Kalashevich Kurdoev, (Russian

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: Курдоев, Канат Калашевич, Kurdish

Kurdish language

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: Qanatê Kurdo; 1909–October 31, 1985), was a Kurdish

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 writer, linguist and academic. He was born in the village of Sûsiz near Kars

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 in north-eastern Turkey

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. He attended a Kurdish school in Tbilisi

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. Many other Kurdish writers (such as Dr. Çerkez Bakayêv) in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 were also educated in that school. In 1928, he went to Saint Petersburg

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 to continue his studies, where he attended the Language, history and literature department of University of Leningrad. He received his PhD in 1941. After World War II

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 he began teaching Kurdology

Kurdish language

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 and Kurdish language in the faculty of Oriental Studies. In 1960, he became the head of the new Kurdology section of the faculty. He died in Leningrad

Saint Petersburg

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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 (kurmandzhi): fonetika, morfologija (The grammar of the Kurdish language:Phonetic, Morphology), Moscow, 1957
2. Kurdoev, K. K., Kurdsko-Russki Slovar (Kurmanji-Russian Dictionary), 890 p., Moscow, 1960.
3. Kurdoev, K. K. and Yusupova, Z.A., Kurdsko-Russki Slovar (Sorani) Russkii yazik (Sorani-Russian Dictionary), 752 p.,Moscow, 1983.
4. Kurdoev, K. K., Grammatika kurdskogo iazyka na materiale dialektov kurmandzhi i sorani Moskva (The comparison of the grammar of Kurdish dialects: North Kurmanji and south Kurmanji), 293 p., 1978.

Literature and Folklore

1. Tarîxa Edebiyata Kurdî, cilda 1 (The history of Kurdish Literature), two volumes,1983/1985.
2. Duwanzdeh varîant, Mem û Zîn (Twelve versions of Mam and Zin), 1996.