Kurdish
Kurdish is actually not a single language, but a group of three languages (Kurmanji, Sorani and Southern Kurdish) which all have many different regional dialects. Each of these three main languages is significantly different from the other two so that a Kurmanji speaker hardly understands Sorani and vice versa. Kurmanji (autonym: Kurmancî) is with around 20 million speakers the biggest group and is usually written in Latin script. Next is Sorani (کوردی = Kurdî or سۆرانی = Sorani) with around 8-10 million speakers. It is written in Persian script and thus read right-to-left. Finally there is Southern Kurdish with 3-5 million speakers and quite different regional dialects.
More details on Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Kurdish language Wikipedia:Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia:Sorani Wikipedia:Southern Kurdish dialects
Almost all Kurdish speakers speak at least one more language (mostly Turkish or Arabic or Persian) which is the official government language in their place. Kurdish is spoken at home, but as the whole education system and official administration is not in Kurdish, they are often not confident in reading and writing their language. Often they miss specialized words and accordingly include words from the official language in their region. There is not very much written literature available. Additionally there are many regional dialects and the spelling is partly not standardized.
Kurdish Bible translations
This website is very extensive on the Bible in Kurdish: http://www.kurdisite.com. It has an overview over all different Bible translations and where to get them together with a lot of other resources. Consult it if you want to know more than what is written here. Besides, you can find most of the available Kurdish Bible translations (also smaller dialects) available here: http://www.kurdish-bible.org
Kurmanji
See Kurmanji#Kurmanji_Bible_translations
Sorani
See Sorani#Sorani_Bible_translations
Jesus Film
- See Kurmanji#Jesus Film
- See Sorani#Jesus Film
- For other Kurdish languages see http://www.jesusfilm.org/search.html?q=kurdi
