This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Northern Kurdish corpus (Haig, Vollmer, & Thiele 2019), originally published in May 2015 with version 1505 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Northern Kurdish [nort2641], also known as Kurmanjî, is a Northwest Iranian language spoken in eastern Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and parts of western Iran. The three texts recorded here are traditional narratives, from a female and a male speaker who grew up near the townships of Erzurum and Muš, respectively. The texts were recorded in Germany in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and subsequently transcribed, translated, and annotated for Multi-CAST by Geoffrey Haig, Abdullah Incekan, Hanna Thiele, and Maria Vollmer. A description of the language can be found in Haig (2018).

Citation: Haig, Geoffrey & Vollmer, Maria & Thiele, Hanna. 2019. Multi-CAST Northern Kurdish. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Haig, Geoffrey. 2018. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanjî). In Haig, Geoffrey & Khan, Geoffrey (eds.), The languages and linguistics of Western Asia: An areal perspective, 106–158. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.