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I would like to add a book to the literature section of this article on Yazidis. Elif Shafak's 2024 novel "There are Rivers in the Sky" is a split-timeline novel about water, that reaches from the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal to a hydrologist in present-day London and addresses the persecution, and 2014 massacre, of the Yazidi. PLEASE NOTE: the words above are almost identical to the ones on Elif Shafak's Wikipedia page, and I do not want to plagiarize. Perhaps the person who makes this edit can rectify the wording? The link to the NOVEL is: [Are Rivers in the Sky] The link to the AUTHOR is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elif_Shafak On a personal note, the book's ending made me cry a river. Rosalea (talk) 19:00, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Partly done: I edited the requested text and added a source ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 13:07, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Language of yezidi

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I learned from yezidi women today that they do NOT speak Kurdish, they speak yezidi. ~2026-24654-00 (talk) 18:41, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

If you follow the link to Yazidi language, it is in fact a redirect to Kurmanji. The lead sentence states: Kurmanji (Kurdish: کورمانجی, romanized: Kurmancî, lit. 'Kurdish', pronunciation),^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] also termed Northern Kurdish,^[5]^[6]^[7] is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions.^[8] It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.

Peaceray (talk) 04:21, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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↑ Captain R. E. Jardine (1922). Bahdinan Kurmanji - A grammar of the Kurmanji of the Kurds of Mosul division and surrounding districts of Kurdistan. Baghdad: Government Press. p. ii.
↑ Ayfer Gokalp (August 2015). "Language and Literacy Practices of Kurdish Children Across Their Home and School Spaces in Turkey" (PDF). Arizona State University. p. 146. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
↑ Paul, Ludwig (2008). "Kurdish language I. History of the Kurdish language". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. London and New York: Routledge. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
↑ Georg Krotkoff (1997). Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East. p. 299.
↑ Yazidis at Ethnologue (28th ed., 2025)
↑ "Ethnologue - Kurdish". Retrieved 19 March 2019.
↑ E. S. Soane (1909). Notes on Kurdish Dialects. Asian Educational Services. p. 906. ISBN 9788120617506. Retrieved 22 March 2019. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
↑ Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl (2005). The Kurds : a Contemporary Overview. Routledge. ISBN 1134907656.

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Shammo, Q. (2026). A History of Religiously Justified Violence against the Yezidis from Early Islamic Conquests to ISIS. In: From Fatwā to Genocide: Historic and Contemporary Manifestations of the Islamic Genocide against the Yezidis. Yezidi Studies, vol 5. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-8674-3_2

Bookku (talk) 11:53, 23 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

[1] Captain R. E. Jardine (1922). Bahdinan Kurmanji - A grammar of the Kurmanji of the Kurds of Mosul division and surrounding districts of Kurdistan. Baghdad: Government Press. p. ii.

[2] Ayfer Gokalp (August 2015). "Language and Literacy Practices of Kurdish Children Across Their Home and School Spaces in Turkey" (PDF). Arizona State University. p. 146. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

[Iranica-3] Paul, Ludwig (2008). "Kurdish language I. History of the Kurdish language". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. London and New York: Routledge. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

[4] Georg Krotkoff (1997). Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East. p. 299.

[ethnologue-5] Yazidis at Ethnologue (28th ed., 2025)

[6] "Ethnologue - Kurdish". Retrieved 19 March 2019.

[7] E. S. Soane (1909). Notes on Kurdish Dialects. Asian Educational Services. p. 906. ISBN 9788120617506. Retrieved 22 March 2019. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

[8] Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl (2005). The Kurds : a Contemporary Overview. Routledge. ISBN 1134907656.

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