Zazaki

Indo-European language spoken by Zaza people

Languagelanguage macrolanguage modern languageQ10199

Also known as Zaza · Kirdki · Kirmanjki (macrolanguage) · Kirmanjki · Dimili · Zazaki language

Speakers: 1,640,000
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1.Stated in Ethnologue
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Subclass of: Zaza–Gorani languages
Script: Zazaki alphabet
, Latin script
, Arabic alphabet

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Zaza, also known by its endonym Zazaki, is an Iranic language or group of languages belonging to the Northwestern Iranian branch and spoken in various regions of Turkey by the Zaza people. The language comprises three primary varieties; northern, southern, and central and these varieties are spoken in Bingöl, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Malatya, Muş, Bitlis and Tunceli provinces in Eastern Anatolia; Adıyaman, Diyarbakır and Şanlıurfa provinces in Southeastern Anatolia; Kars and Ardahan in Northeastern Anatolia; Sivas, Kayseri, Aksaray in Central Anatolia and Tokat and Gümüşhane in Black Sea regions of Turkey. Leading linguistic authorities, including SIL Global, Glottolog and Ethnologue, categorize the language into distinct northern and southern varieties, which are further delineated by extensive sub-dialectal variation.

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Wikimedia language code: diq
Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb
ergative–absolutive language
Country: Turkey
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1.“ScriptSource - Turkey”scriptsource.org/country/TRRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Native label: Zazaki
UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable
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1.Stated in Red Book of Endangered Languagesunesco.org/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1985.htmlRetrieved 2018-06-24
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Has grammatical case: separative case
Category for films in this language: Category:Zazaki-language films
Different from: Southern Zaza
Female form of label: la langue zaza

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20 identifiers linking Zazaki across the web's reference databases

38.6000, 40.7000OpenStreetMap ↗

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