Zaza–Gorani languages

Zaza–Gorani is a linguistic subgroup of Northwestern Iranian languages. They are usually classified as a non-Kurdish branch of the Northwestern Iranian languages^[4][5][6] but most of their speakers consider themselves ethnic Kurds.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Zaza–Gorani
Geographic distribution	Iraq, Iran, Turkey
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Northwestern[1][2][3] Zaza–Gorani
Subdivisions	Zaza Gorani (Hawrami)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tati1243  (Adharic)

The Zaza–Gorani languages are the Zaza and the Gorani,^[11][12] and Shabaki^{[13][14][15][16]} languages. Whereas Gorani is composed of four dialects being Hawrami, Bajelani and Sarli.^[17][18]

Sources

1. Ethnologue.com - Zaza-Gorani
2. Linguistik List Language Search - Zaza-Gorani
3. Glottolog - Family Zaza
4. Frye, Richard Nelson (1984). The History of Ancient Iran. C.H.Beck. p. 30. ISBN 9783406093975.
5. Minahan, James (2002-05-30). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World A-Z [4 Volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313076961.
6. Hamelink, Wendelmoet (2016-04-21). The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation. BRILL. ISBN 9789004314825.
7. Arakelova, Victoria (1999). "The Zaza People as a New Ethno-Political Factor in the Region". Iran & the Caucasus. 3/4: 397–408. doi:10.1163/157338499X00335. JSTOR 4030804.
8. Kehl-Bodrogi; Otter-Beaujean; Barbara Kellner-Heikele (1997). Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East : collected papers of the international symposium "Alevism in Turkey and comparable syncretistic religious communities in the Near East in the past and present", Berlin, 14-17 April 1995. Leiden: Brill. p. 13. ISBN 9789004108615.
9. Nodar Mosaki (14 March 2012). "The zazas: a kurdish sub-ethnic group or separate people?". Zazaki.net. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
10. J.N. Postgate (2007). Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern (PDF). Cambridge: British School of Archaeology in Iraq. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-903472-21-0. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
11. "Traditional classification tree". Iranatlas.com. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
12. I. M. Nick (2019). Forensic linguistics asylum-seekers, refugees and immigrants. Vernon Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781622731305.
13. Hulst, Harry van der; Goedemans, Rob; Zanten, Ellen van (2010). A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110196313.
14. Hindo, Walid A. (2016-09-08). From Baghdad on the Tigris to Baghdad on the Subway. Archway Publishing. ISBN 9781480834033.
15. Gunter, Michael M. (2018-02-20). Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538110508.
16. "Zaza-Gorani". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
17. "Bajalan". Iranica Online. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
18. "Gurani". Iranica Online. Retrieved 30 May 2019.

External links

• www.zazaki.net (Kırmancki, Zaza, Kirdki, Dimli)
• www.zazaki.de

Gallery

• 
  Partial tree of Indo-European languages.
• 
  Position of Zaza-Gorani languages in Iranian Languages