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My mom’s native language is Kurdish, but she’s Arab, so she raised me as a native Arabic speaker. Recently, we were studying science together from my book, and we came across a plant called (سيكاد), which is “cycad” in English. I noticed that she pronounces it more like “seecat”

That made me realize that she seems to devoice voiced consonants at the ends of words. For example, a word like (اصرار) is pronounced as /ɪsˤraːr̥/ (sorry if my IPA is off).

So my question is: does Kurmanji have final devoicing, or is this just a feature of her Arabic dialect?