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Armenia: Robinson Crusoe in Kurdish

Written byOnnik Krikorian
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Posted 20 December 2007 17 years ago

Kurdistan and Hayastan — Hand in Hand posts a scan of the front page of the Kurdish translation of Daniel Dafoe's classic book, Robinson Crusoe. The book was translated and published in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish in 1936.

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