Zaza language

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)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern I Zaza–Gorani Zaza
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2	zza
ISO 639-3	zza – inclusive code Individual codes: kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zaza) diq – Dimli (Southern Zaza)
Glottolog	zaza1246
ELP	Dimli
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

• Zaza-Gorani | Ethnologue Ethnologue on Zazaki (language)
• [1] Archived 2009-10-25 at the Wayback Machine (Weblinks of Zaza people)
• Zazaki.de zazaki dimili zaza Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Academic Research Center of Zazaki
• [2] Archived 2016-01-13 at the Wayback Machine Only Zazaki news
• [3] Zazaki Institute