Kurd or Kurdish.
(1) Armenic: the dialect of Kurdistan, the mountain country dividing Mesopotamia from Persia, halfway between the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, now divided between Persia and Turkey. It is closely allied to Ossetic and Pushtoo, and has been classed as Iranic; it is written with Arabic characters. Klaproth: “Asia Pol.,” p. 76.
⁂ It is not used as a written language, Persian being substituted. There is a Grammar in Italian by Garzoni, Rome, 1787. H. C.
(2) Old Kurdish has been regarded as a dialect of Chaldee. See “Forschungen,” by Lerch, 2 vols., St. Petersburg, 1857.
Kurg, see under C.
Kurilian.
Also called Aino, the native language of the Kurile Is., also spoken by the aborigines of Yesso or Yezo, one of the Japanese group, and allied to Kamskadal and Koriak. The Ainos are a hairy race, easily distinguished from the smoother Mongols.
Kuring.
“Kuring” in Sundanese means a “serf,” a person of low origin. Hence the Low Sundanese is called “Basa-Kuring.” P. J. V. See [Sundanese].