Analysis of Phonology and Morphology in the Kobani Dialect

Kobanî is a Kurdish dialect spoken in and around Kobani (Ain al-Arab), which is the capital city of the district 'Ain al-'Arab in the governement Aleppo in Syria. The Kobanî dialect can be considered to be part of the Southern Kurmanji dialect-group and has approximately 200,000 native speakers. This is a computer-aided analysis of the Kurdish dialect Kobani, based on speech data collected from dozens of native speakers from various villages of that region.