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 cited 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 Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas. It belongs to the northwest-Iranian group of Iranic languages. 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. Many people consider the Zaza language to be a dialect of Kurdish however it has been shown that Zaza has more similarities with other Iranic languages such as Mazandarani than it does with Kurdish.

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] Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine Zazaki Institute