Zazaki

Zazaki
Native to	Turkey
Region	Main in Tunceli, Bingol, Erzincan, Sivas, Elazig, Malatya Gümüşhane Province, Şanlıurfa Province, and Adıyaman Province, diasporic in Mutki, Sarız, Aksaray, and Taraz
Ethnicity	Zaza
Native speakers	About 1.5–2.5 million in Turkey, unknown numbers elsewhere  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian languages Western Northwestern Caspian languages Zaza-Gorani Zazaki
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-2	zza
ISO 639-3	zza – inclusive code Individual codes: kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) diq – Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Linguasphere	58-AAA-ba
The regions where Zazaki is spoken in Turkey. (With three main dialect areas; Dersim, Palu-Bingol, and Siverek), diasporic in Kars, Sarız, Aksaray, and Taraz

Zazaki is a language spoken in eastern Anatolia above the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. It belongs to the northwest-Iranian group of the Iranian language branch of the Indo-European language family. The Zaza language is related to Sangsarī, Māzandarānī, Tātī (Herzendī), Semnānī, Tāleshī, Kurdish, Persian and Balōchi. An exact indication of the number of Zaza speakers is unknown.

Zaza is also a name that appears [1] in the Bible, meaning "belonging to all" or "plenty". [2]

Other websites

• kurdish Zaza People and Literature
• Zaza Bible Reference
• Ethnologue on Zazaki (language)
• Zazaki Wikipedia
• Academic Research Center of Zazaki - (in several languages but as of 2004 not much English-language content)
• Web Center of Zaza People (Weblinks of Zaza people)
• http://www.zazaki-institut.de
• http://www21.brinkster.com/miyaheqi/culture/
• http://f23.parsimony.net/forum49992/index.htm