# A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03942 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03942/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 68 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [A Rule-based Kurdish Text Transliteration System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.10278/) (2018)
- [Towards Finite-State Morphology of Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10652/) (2020)
- [Building a Lemmatizer and a Spell-checker for Sorani Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.10763/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.01983/) (2024)
- [Hunspell for Sorani Kurdish Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.06374/) (2021)
- [CKMorph: A Comprehensive Morphological Analyzer for Central Kurdish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.08615/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Sorani Kurdish, also known as Central Kurdish, has a complex morphology, particularly due to the patterns in which morphemes appear. Although several aspects of Kurdish morphology have been studied, such as pronominal endoclitics and Izafa constructions, Sorani Kurdish morphology has received trivial attention in computational linguistics. Moreover, some morphemes, such as the emphasis endoclitic =ics, and derivational morphemes have not been previously studied. To tackle the complex morphology of Sorani, we provide a thorough description of Sorani Kurdish morphological and morphophonological constructions in a formal way such that they can be used as finite-state transducers for morphological analysis and synthesis.