The Sorani of Facebook

Since there are always needs to be met, Social Networks try to fill the blanks of social needs of humans; the desire to meet communicate and introduce to people, even though thousands of miles away. Now all eyes are on Facebook, the most popular Social Network across the globe, so do the eyes of this research. Among billions of likes, comments and updates in various languages, this book tracks the online Sorani speech community, a major Kurdish dialect, on the website. It tells you how Facebook have brought not only social and political changes to the lives of Middle Easterners , but also language change. It takes in to consideration social factors only and when they have impact on language use. This book, to the best knowledge of the author, is the first of its kind to study Kurdish language in relation to Facebook.

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BA in English Language and Literature, Duhok University, the author is a native Kurdish. Besides, he knows English, Persian, and some Arabic. Moreover, he knows the three major dialects of Kurdish language: Sorani, Kurmanci and Gorani. His field of interest is linguistics, lexicography in particular.