Indo-European language spoken by Zaza people From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zaza language, also called Zazaki, Kirmanjki and Dimli, is an Iranian language mainly spoken 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. But it has been shown that Zaza has is more similar to other Iranic languages such as Mazandarani than to Kurdish.
Zaza | |
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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)[1] |
Indo-European
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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 |
ELP | Dimli |
Linguasphere | 58-AAA-ba |
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