A sentence starts with a capital letter.

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Kurmanji capitalises the first word of a sentence. The capital of i is I, and of î is Î, as in the Hawar alphabet.

Examples

Wrong	Right
iro baran dibare.	Iro baran dibare.
ez hatim.	Ez hatim.

Lessons

• Lesson 2: The Hawar alphabet
• Lesson 5: Writing and reading

Related rules

• Kurmanji writes this vowel with a circumflex.
• Use a plain apostrophe here.
• This letter looks right but comes from another alphabet.
• This word has a letter or cluster Kurmanji does not write.
• This is a Turkish letter, not part of the Hawar alphabet.