1. 2 Ernest Gellner , Thought and Change (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1964 ), p.168 .
2. 5 On the precarious position of the Kurdish language, for example, seeAmir Hassanpour , Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985 (San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1992 ), p.466 .