Consonants and vowels in phonology combine to form prosodic units like syllables, with CV syllables being universally unmarked. Languages often create more complex syllables by adding consonants before and after vowels. In many languages, simplification processes can be observed when dealing with consonant clusters. This chapter provides an overview of the cluster simplification processes by which Kurdish language speakers articulate more unmarked syllable structures. We explore which consonants are targeted for simplification and the phonological rules governing these simplifications, as studied in most languages. This chapter discusses cluster simplification in the Kurdish language, offering both a general description and its place in the typological survey of world languages. The sections are organized as follows: Section “Introduction” introduces the Kurdish language, the variety under study, its phonology, and data elicitation and methodology. Section “Review of Literature” reviews previous studies on Kurdish phonology and syllable structure. Section “Theoretical Framework” presents the theoretical framework of the study. Section “Analysis and Discussion” analyzes consonant clusters in Central Kurdish and various repair strategies to avoid these clusters. These phonological rules are classified into assimilation of cluster elements in terms of voice (section “Voice Assimilation”) and place of articulation (section “Place Assimilation”), deletion of the first consonant (section “C1 Deletion”) or second consonant (section “C2 Deletion”), vowel epenthesis to split a coda cluster into two syllables (section “Epenthesis”), and metathesis (section “Metathesis”), the last phonological rule resulting in cluster simplification. Concluding remarks and results are presented in section “Conclusion.”