The influence of the components of nation building on language, with reference to the Kurdish language

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This paper is entitled ‘‘The Influence of the Components of Nation Building on language, with the reference to the Kurdish Language’’.

The main purpose of the study is to shed light on how much the components of nation building have influence on language, with the reference to the Kurdish language.

For the data selected, a questionnaire has been used in order to know how much the components of nation building have effect on language, with the reference of Kurdish.

Furthermore, 60 university instructors have participated in the questionnaire in the departments of Kurdish, Arabic, English, Religion, Media and Economics at the University of Salahaddin.

For analysing the obtained data, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used.

The findings of this research indicate that the components of nation building, which are media, education, economy, military and religion have enough influences on the Kurdish language because each of the components of the nation building has introduced a lot of economic, religious, military and foreign words to the Kurdish language.

Therefore, it can be said that all the components of nation building have had enough influences on promoting the Kurdish language.

Moreover, all components of the nation building have increased the number of the Kurdish vocabulary because they have introduced a lot of the words to the Kurdish language.