A perennial problem for Kurdish linguistics is the fragmented nature of the field. There is a Jack of reliable general introductory texts, and a lack of a common forum for exchanging research results. Lin­guists beginning work on Kurdish are obliged to stumble their way through a variety of sources, often of obscure origin and some of doubtful reliability. One of the aims of this contribution is to bring together a broad range of previously published scholarship in the hope that future researchers will be able to widen the relevance of their findings by relating them to existent material. We also provide a highly condensed account of what we believe are central issues in Kurdish linguistics, and offer some pointers for future research in the field.