The Social Coexistence and its Effect on Lexical Change: A Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Lexical Items in a Kurdish Variety in Garmian

Authors

  • Wirya Ameen Garmian Polytechnic University, Kalar, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
  • Mohammed Hussein Ahmed Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26750/Vol(12).No(1).Paper32

Keywords:

Borrowing, Language Change, Social Coexistence, Boarding.

Abstract

The Kurdish variety, spoken in the town of Kifri, in the southern part of Kurdistan Region (Garmian), has undergone changes as a result of borrowing words from other languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Turkmen. This paper deals, in particular, with words taken from the Turkmani language, and this is due to the coexistence of Kurdish speakers with people speaking this language in the area. The influx of words from this language into this Kurdish variety has caused enormous changes in the lexical structure of the language. The aim of the work is to highlight the effect of this social coexistence on this variety. This is done by selecting a number of Turkmen loan words in the language, and conducting a morpho-semantic analysis of them with reference to some phonological changes they have undergone in the process of borrowing. The research hypothesizes that the Turkmen loan words are expected to have undergone semantic, morphological, and phonological changes due to their adaptation to the host language system. The study adopts a qualitative method to carry out the analysis of the samples in the light of the aspects mentioned. The conclusions show that the analyzed samples have exhibited changes in the sphere of lexis and this has had no effect on the core structural system of the host language. Besides, the research has unraveled proportional discrepancies among the loan words in relation to the changes they have encountered. The significance of the study can be said to lie in its advantage for etymological studies that aim at investigating the origin of certain vocabularies in a given language. Similar studies can be suggested to quest for other linguistic aspects of borrowed words in given languages.

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Published

2025-02-28

Issue

Section

Humanities & Social Sciences

How to Cite

The Social Coexistence and its Effect on Lexical Change: A Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Lexical Items in a Kurdish Variety in Garmian. (2025). Journal of University of Raparin, 12(1), 658-671. https://doi.org/10.26750/Vol(12).No(1).Paper32