Phonological Processes in Kurdish Dialect of Sonqor Kolyaee

The present article deals with the description and explanation of some of the most important productive phonological processes in Sonqor kolyaee Kurdish dialect. Deletion, Insertion, Lenition, Metathesis, Compensatory Lengthening, Insertion and Convert /n to /ɫ/ are the processes analyzed using evidence from this dialect. For this purpose, interviews were carried out with ten native informants in different age groups. Moreover, one of the co-authors was the informant of this dialect. Data were transcribed based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Examined processes indicated the occurrence of several simultaneous phonetic processes in some of the words in this dialect. In addition, Deletion and Lenition were the most frequent processes and Metathesis was least frequent. Initial cluster of two consonants were common in this dialect which had w or y as the second consonant. In adition to Kurdish dialect of Mahabad (Karimidustan, 2002), the syllabic structure CVCCC is also common in Kurdish dialect of Sonqor kolyaee.