Deletion of Sounds

Deletion and Change of Sounds of the Loanwords into the Kurdish Language

Sherwan Husen Hamad, Shokhan Qadir Hasan

This study is entitled “Deletion and Change of Sounds of the Loanwords into the Kurdish Language”, which is a statistical analytic study. Study instruments have been allocated for the words borrowed from the English language and entered the Kurdish language. The study comes within the field of the phonology and has been worked on according to the descriptive analytic manner. The study intends to respond to the question to which extend phenomenon of deletion and changing sounds happen to the borrowed words that entered the Kurdish language. For this purpose, in addition to an introduction, a conclusion and the list of the sources, this study has been divided into two parts. In the first part, definition of the phonological rules, each one of deletion and changing of the sounds, loanwords and change of the sounds have been discussed. In the second part, an analysis and statistics have been presented about the words, borrowed from the English language and entered the Kurdish language, which face deletion and change of their sounds.