Zaza language
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| Zaza | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Anatolia |
| Region | Main in Tunceli, Bingöl, Erzincan, Sivas, Elazığ, Erzurum, Malatya Gümüşhane Province, Şanlıurfa Province, and Varto, Adıyaman Province; diasporic in Mutki, Sarız, Aksaray, and Taraz |
| Ethnicity | Zaza |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (1998)[1] |
| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | zza |
| ISO 639-3 | zza – inclusive codeIndividual codes: kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza) diq – Dimli (Southern Zaza) |
| Glottolog | zaza1246[2] |
| Linguasphere | 58-AAA-ba |
Zaza language, also called Zazaki, Kirmanjki and Dimli, is an Indo-European language spoken in eastern Anatolia above the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. It belongs to the northwest-Iranian group of Iranian language. The Zaza language is related to Sangsarī, Māzandarānī, Tātī (Herzendī), Semnānī, Tāleshī, Kurdish, Persian and Balōchi. The number of Zaza speakers is not known exactly.
Other websites[change | change source]
- [1] Ethnologue on Zazaki (language)
- [2] (Weblinks of Zaza people)
- [3] Academic Research Center of Zazaki
- [4] Zazaki Wikipedia
- [5] Only Zazaki news
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Zaza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dimli (Southern Zaza) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zaza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
