Summary
Driving through parts of northeastern Syria, Vian Khouzy points proudly to dozens of new road signs printed in Kurdish.
The 33-year old works as a taxi driver in areas controlled by the autonomous Kurdish administration in northern and northeastern Syria.
In 2004, anti-regime demonstrations in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria were brutally repressed.
A year later the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the most prominent representative of Syria's Kurds, announced an autonomous administrative system in three "cantons," sparking a Kurdish renaissance.
The demand for Kurdish language classes was so high that the center was forced to split students into morning and evening sessions.
The University of Damascus also added Kurdish to its language department last year.
Ronahi TV was founded at the end of 2012 in Amouda and is the only Syrian satellite channel that broadcasts in Kurdish.
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